Pantanal Wildlife : A Visitor's Guide to South America's Great Wetland

The most user-friendly guidebook to South America's greatest wildlife destination, according to Time magazine

Extending across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Pantanal is South America's answer to Africa's Serengeti: a vast territory brimming with abundant, exciting and photogenic wildlife. The planet's biggest wetland—10 times larger than Florida's Everglades, 15 times that of Botswana's Okavango Delta—offers superlative wildlife-watching to enthrall novice and expert alike. In no other New World location can visitors see at point-blank range such a high number and variety of birds (670+ species), mammals (110+ species) and reptiles (50+ species).

During the dry season, breathtaking gatherings of wildlife create record-breaking opportunities for sightings. Nowhere else offers better chances to spot the Americas' mightiest cat (jaguar), the world's largest parrot (hyacinth macaw), the largest rodent (the pig-sized capybara), the planet's greatest gathering of crocodilians (yacaré caiman) and South America's heaviest land mammal (lowland tapir).

This extensively updated second edition combines a comprehensive wildlife guide with practical travel advice. Written by a South American wildlife expert, it features authoritative yet accessible text that brings remarkable animals to life through insights into behaviour and biology. Whether you're hoping to recognise the animals you see, understand more about them, or learn exactly where to look, this portable guide covers all major faunal groups and provides up-to-date visitor advice on where to stay and how to get around across all three countries. It's the indispensable travel companion to one of the world's greatest places.