South America Animal Bracket

South America might be the most underrated country when it comes to cool wildlife. The continent that is the home of the jaguar is a force to be reckoned with though. The entire continent is full of amazing creatures. There are animals here that can not be seen anywhere else in the world. This is not even mentioning all of the amazing rain-forests that cannot be seen anywhere else on earth. Lets look at all of the awesome animals from South America.

Here is the blank bracket for animals from South America.

First, let me apologize for the sloppiness and the poor clarity of the above photo. It is hard to write in some of these names in this small area. For instance, the Galapagos Land Iguana takes a lot of space to write up. This bracket is one of the main reasons we will be going to shorter names on the brackets in the future. Also working on getting typed brackets from here on out. 

Themed brackets are the rage once again. The brackets here are broken down into small mammals, monkeys/sloths, predators, and the animals of the Galapagos islands. The Galapagos Islands are technically South America after all. This breakdown gives us four incredible number one overall seeds. Those four animals are the mighty jaguar, the wise Galapagos Tortoise, the Giant Anteater, and the Two Toed Sloth. As you can see the jaguar might be the favorite, but it will have some pretty strong competition. We will have to see how it breaks down.

Jenna's bracket

As you can see, Jenna did not love or even really like doing this bracket at all. She skipped several of the spots because she didn't know all of the animals. She loves the Galapagos Tortoise and the Jaguar and picked both of them in the finals. Her opinion is that those two animals are far better than any from that area of the world. Due to the fact that she wanted to move on, so will we to the 3 of us that loved this bracket...

Eli's bracket

Eli picked the jaguar just like his mom. It is the favorite after all and one of the coolest animals in the entire world. He rounded out his final 4 with Black Squirrel Monkey, Giant Anteater, and Blue Footed Booby. His favorite color is blue, the name is funny to say and the bird looks awesome. How could the animal not be in his final 2. His final match-up is indicative of his whole bracket. This guy picked everything just as we expected it to happen. He absolutely loves these animals and enjoyed this bracket. Our youngest guy made big moves!!! Our little guy turned 3 yesterday btw! Happy Birthday Eli!!!

From our joyful Eli we go to me....

My bracket

My bracket was very different from the rest of the family. I am the only one that did not pick the jaguar as my champ and I had 2 final 4 selections that nobody else had. It was difficult to pick against the Jaguar, but I personally like Giant Anteaters more. The animal is so cool and I have just always admired it. My top 4 was rounded out by the itty bitty Pygmy Marmoset that is absolutely adorable and the red footed booby. I actually didn't even know a red footed booby existed until I did research for this bracket, but now its at the top of my animal wish list to see in the wild. South American is an awesome continent to view creatures! Let's move on to the real animal lover though...

Noland Jr.'s bracket

Noland Jr. picked the favorite in the Jaguar making him the 3rd person to pick jaguars. That animal so clearly won our brackets, but let's discuss his bracket further. He was the second person to pick pink fairy armadillo in his final 4 (Jenna also did). Btw, how crazy is it that such a thing as a pink fairy armadillo exists? They exist and they are super cool. I wish you could see them more frequently because they are awesome. Jr. also picked Galapagos Hawks and Black Head Spider Monkeys in his Final 4. Those final 4 selections were ones that only he selected. He really enjoyed this bracket and all animal brackets. Now, to help take him to see these animals....

Here are our final bracket rankings for this bracket
5. Galapagos Hawk 9 spaces
T-3. Pygmy Marmoset/Pink Fairy Armadillo 11 spaces
2. Giant Anteater 14 spaces
1. Jaguar - 23 spaces
The Jaguar absolutely smashed the competition for our biggest bracket beatdown yet!!

These Jaguars are from the Jacksonville Zoo. They are Jacksonville Jaguars... I'll show myself out...

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-Noland