praying on many of the above animals are the predators of the country, including some of the big cats - jaguar (panthera onca) and cougar (puma concolor), smaller cats - ocelot (leopardus pardalis), margay (leopardus wiedii) and the otter-like jaguarundi (puma yaguarondi). other predators include the otter (lutra), the coati (nasua), and the weasel (eira barbara).

having one of the largest amount of bird species on the planet, it is no surprise the vast numbers of endemic birds. some of the rarest of these include the kinglet cotinga (calyptura cristata), the hyacinth macaw (anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) - the largest parrot in the world, the black-hooded antwern (formicivora erythronotos), and the two now extinct in the wild alagoas currasow (mitu mitu) and spix's macaw/little blue macaw (cyanopsitta spixii).

there are also good news for many of the endemic bird species of brazil, since many of them have made remarkable comebacks in recent years. such examples include the red-and-green macaw (ara chloroptera), the toco toucan (ramphastos toco) - the largest and best known of the toucans, the yellow-eared woodpecker (verniliornis maculirons), the pale-faced bare-eye (phlegopsis borbae) and various hummingbirds (ramphodon, eupetomena, melanotrochilus, phaetornis, amazilia, etc.).