Rainforest Animals List Amazon
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Rainforest animals list amazon. Insects - the Smallest of the Amazon Rainforest Animals. This massive carnivore can grow up to 5 m in length and is the Amazon Rivers largest predator. Rainforest animals include mammals such as sloths tapirs jaguars tigers howler monkeys spider monkeys and orangutans.
A spangled cotinga bird. These forests are also home to some of the most dangerous animals known to humans and here is a list of the 15 most dangerous Amazon Rainforest. One in ten known species in the world lives in the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon River Dolphin is 5 on our list of Top 5 Favorite Animals of the Amazon Rainforest. Amazonian tapir and many more. If you are interested in seeing these river dolphins we recommend taking an Amazon River cruise such as the Tucano.
These forests are known as the lungs of the earth because they absorb the largest amount of carbon dioxide on land and give out oxygen. The Amazon rainforest is the home to many other unique creatures such as the Harpy Eagle the Peanut Head Bug the Kinkajou the Giant Armadillo the Giant River Otter the Ocelot the Puma the South American Tapir the Squirrel Monkey and the Pygmy Marmoset to name a few. Depending on the species they fit into the food chain as either apex predators eating fish and small animals with no natural predators or as prey a fate which befalls the smaller species when a hungry jaguar pounces.
These friendly creatures also known as the pink dolphin live only in freshwater in the Amazon Rivers. Check out the animals on our Amazon Creatures List you may encounter aboard the Motor Yacht Tucano Amazon River Cruise and Rainforest Expedition Tour. Thus visitors to the Amazon are advised to be cautious and well aware of their surroundings at.
Some of these amazing animals include monkeys piranhas anacondas tapirs jaguars and iguanas. Amphibians such as poison dart frogs and the red-eyed tree frog. The Ecuadorian Amazon has over 300 species of mammals 800 species of fish 1600 species of birds and 350 species of reptiles.