Rainforests are forest characterized by heavy rainfall with definitions setting, minimum, normal, annual rainfall falls within 1750-2000 mm (68"-70") and the location of the Amazon Rainforest is in the continent of South America in the Northern, Southern, and Western and the latitude and longitude range is about 15Ëš-20Ëš north and 46Ëš West.
Water Lily (: The Water Lily is a Pink, Purple, Blue or white delicate little flower. Each Water Lily has a minimum of 67 Petals. Most of the Fish in the Amazon feed on the petals and seeds of this flower. It floats on the water of on top of a lily pad or often along side of one in the Amazon River along the Amazon Rainforest. Normally these flowers are used to make medicines, their juice is applied to skin ulcers to cure, also to broken bones or repairing joints but the most common way of using them is to ground up the seeds to put in flour, powder, or slices so they can be put on top of foods.
Water Lily
Cocoa Tree (: The Cocoa Tree is a tree from the Amazon Rainforest. It is usually a very skinny brown tree with green, red, or yellow leaves. It has a very strong structure and it holds little pouches of cocoa that can be variable colors. It lives in the Canopy Layer of the Amazon Rainforest. The main use is to make Chocolate but it is useful for a lot of other things. You can use it to treat kidney stones, cuts, burns, coughs, occasionally even Fevers. This is a very beautiful and valuable plant that brings many needed resources.
Cocoa Tree
Baby Pygmy Marmoset (:
The Baby Pygmy Marmoset Live in the Canopy of the Amazon Rainforest. These are tiny brown monkeys with a fuzzy face, a fuzzy tail, and a fuzzy body. These monkeys grow only from 3-6 inches tall. They really are adorable! Their sharp little teeth help dissect the roots of plants and trees to help them get their food and without food they wouldn’t survive, also these miniature little monkeys have sharp eyes to see where the predator is, the last thing is their hands, they are padded with sharp claws to scratch and get juice out of plants. These are the only adaptation’s they need to have to adapt to their environment and stay alive. Big natural predators to these baby pygmy marmosets are Boa constrictors, Pythons, and even Harpy Eagles too! These animals rely on Gums and saps (exudates) from trees and vines. These exudates are an important source of protein, carbohydrates and calcium. They are omnivores and they will also eat insects and other arthropods and small parts of fruits and other plant parts. Pygmy Marmosets are event known to eat small reptiles.
Baby Pygmy Marmoset
Jaguar (:
The Jaguar lives in the very dense forested area of the Amazon Rainforest. It is also a Carnivor This particular animal is a golden yellow color, it has different size, shape, and formed spots frome.. head to toe, the Jaguar has very sharp claws and padded paws and razor sharp teeth for this big cat. Its paws help it adapt to catching its food like a monkey in a tree, its paws can help the jaguar climb the tree to catch him. The teeth and claws help to pierce the fish's gills and catch their food. Their large backs protect and confuse the predators like hunters. Its prey is usually Armadillo, fish, turtles, large caiman, monkeys, and often tries to compete with the human hunter. Besides us humans, this animal is way too big and ferocious to have animal predators.
Baby Jaguar
Physical Features (:
The environment effects humans by A natural rainforest emits and absorbs vast quantities of carbon
dioxide. On a global scale, long-term fluxes are approximately in balance, so that an undisturbed rainforest would have a small net impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, though they may have other climatic effects (on cloud formation, for example, by recycling water vapor). No rainforest today can be considered to be undisturbed. Human induced deforestation plays a significant role in causing rainforests to release carbon dioxide, as do natural processes such as drought that result in tree death. Some climate models run with interactive vegetation and predict a large loss of Amazonian rainforest around 2050 due to drought, leading to forest dieback and the subsequent feedback of releasing more carbon dioxide.
Layers (: The forest floor of primary tropical rainforest is rarely very thick. It’s very dark down here almost no plants grow in this area, as a result, since hardly any sun reaches the forest floor things begin to decay quickly. Mostly Giant anteaters live in this layer. The next layer is the understory layer. Little sunshine reaches this area so the plants have to grow larger leaves to reach the sunlight. The plants in this area seldom grow to 12 feet. Mostly Jaguars, red-eyed tree frogs, and leopards live in the understory layer. The canopy layer is the primary layer of the forest and forms a roof over the two remaining layers. Most canopy trees have smooth, oval leaves that come to a point. Mostly Snakes, toucans, and tree frogs live in the Canopy layer. The very top layer is the Emergent Layer which carries the tallest trees and are the emergent's, towering as much as 200 feet above the forest floor with trunks that measure up to 16 feet around. Mostly Eagles, monkeys, bats, and butterflies live in the emergent layer.
Yanomami Tribe (: The Yanamamo also called Yanomami, and Yanomama, are deep jungle Indians living in the Amazon basin in both Venezuela and Brazil. The Yanomami are believed to be the most primitive, culturally intact people in existence in the world. They are literally a stone age tribe. Cataloged by anthropologists as Neo-Indians with cultural characteristics that date back more than 8000 years, these are a Last Encyclopedia. They have never discovered the wheel and the only metal they use is what has been traded to them from the outside. Their numbering system is one, two, and more than two. They cremate their dead, then crush and drink their bones in a final ceremony intended to keep their loved ones with them forever. They are hunters and gatherers who also tend small garden plots. They are one of the most successful groups in the Amazon rain forest to gain a superior balance and harmony with their environment. The Yanomami comprise a society of hunter-agriculturists of the tropical rainforest of Northern Amazonia, whose contact with non-indigenous society over the most part of their territory has been relatively recent. The total population of the Yanomami in Brazil and Venezuela is today estimated to be around 26,000 people.
Tikuna Tribe (: The Ticuna, also spelled Tukuna or Tikuna, reside in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest near the borders of Peru and Colombia. There are over 70 established Ticuna aldeias (villages) in the Alto Solimones, in the area of the rivers Santo Antonio do Ica and Solimones River. There is also a population in Colombia. The Ticuna were one of the first major tribes of the Amazon to be contacted by the early conquistadors. They are one of the last large population groups left in Brazil. Even with over 400 years of contact, the Ticuna Nation has managed to preserve their personal identity through their native language, traditional religions, rituals, and cultural art forms. They have survived the constant threat of violent extermination and forced integration policies by Western society. The Ticuna are a very artistic tribe whose talents include basketry, wood and stone sculpture, and mask making. They also make bark cloth which is a natural fiber, paper-like fabric which they often paint. This fabric is often incorporated into many things such as masks and dolls as well as painting on it as on canvas or paper. They are one of the few Amazon tribes that paint just for the worth of the painting itself as opposed to painting as decoration on a utilitarian object.
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