The coaties, with their ringed tails are a common sight for visitors in the park who walk the trails. They always travel and rest in groups, delighting kids and playing with them.<\/p>\n The cats, agile, silent, and astute hunters, are another wonder of the park. The most important is the yaguaret\u00e9<\/strong>, and was declared a National Natural Monument in 2001. They hunt a wide variety of prey, including large mammals. Other cats to watch out for is the smaller but equally deadly puma<\/strong>, the ocelote<\/strong> and the yaguarund\u00ed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There is another natural show to catch. The butterflies<\/strong> are enormous, with brilliant colors and strange forms. It\u2019s a natural design show!<\/p>\n There are more than 400 species of birds<\/strong>, including many types of parrots<\/strong> and toucans<\/strong>. But the most common are called \u201cvencejos de cascada\u201d which build their nests in the rocks behind the falls.<\/p>\n When viewing the fish, keep in mind that the waterfalls have constructed a natural barrier between the upper and lower rivers, allowing the fish to evolve separately.<\/p>\n In the lower river you will find the surub\u00ed<\/strong>, the pac\u00fa<\/strong>, the s\u00e1balo<\/strong> and the famous piranha<\/strong>, while in the upper river you will find the chanchitas<\/strong>, tarariras<\/strong>, dientudos<\/strong> and moncholos<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The attentive visitor to Misiones’ forest will have the opportunity to observe many distinctive creatures in their natural habitat. Many mammals live only in defined areas of the jungle: they are tree dwellers and live in communities. One of the more interesting adaptations of the tree dwellers is a tail that is capable of grasping,… Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iguazu"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15901,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/15901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Coat\u00ed,](\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/images\/Igr_coati.jpg\" "\\"Coat\u00ed,")
Many mammals live only in defined areas of the jungle: they are tree dwellers and live in communities. One of the more interesting adaptations of the tree dwellers is a tail that is capable of grasping, so it functions as a fifth hand. If you look towards the canopy when you are walking on the Macuco Path<\/strong>, you will see monkeys<\/strong> moving through it with such grace that they appear to be dancing. Other animals that share this characteristic are the oso melero<\/strong>, the weasels<\/strong>, the zarig\u00fceyas<\/strong> and the coend\u00fa<\/strong>, which is a rodent covered in spines.<\/p>\n