South American tapir
The gallery forests are home to more diverse large and medium-sized mammals, including collared peccary ("Tayassu tajacu"), white-lipped peccary ("T. pecari"), South American tapir ("Tapirus terrestris"), white-tailed deer, red brocket ("Mazama americana"), wedge-capped capuchin ("Cebus olivaceus"), Venezuelan red howler ("Alouatta seniculus"), large rodents like the lowland paca ("Cuniculus paca"), agoutis ("Dasyprocta" spp.), and Brazilian porcupine ("Coendou prehensilis"), and large cats like the puma ("Puma concolor"), jaguar ("Panthera onca"), and ocelot ("Leopardus pardalis"). The endangered giant otter ("Pteronura brasiliensis") lives along the Orinoco and its tributaries.