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  2. Category:Fauna of the Amazon - Wikipedia

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    A. Acalle (sponge) Acouchi; Adelphobates galactonotus; Agaocephala; Aglae; Agrias narcissus; Amazon bamboo rat; Amazon dwarf squirrel; Amazon river dolphin; Amazon River frog

  3. Wildlife of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    In the animal kingdom, there is general consensus that Brazil has the highest number of both terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates of any country in the world. [8] This high diversity of fauna can be explained in part by the sheer size of Brazil and the great variation in ecosystems such as Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Pantanal, Pampas and the Caatinga.

  4. Resplendent quetzal - Wikipedia

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    [1] They populate trees that make up the canopy and subcanopy of the rainforest, though they can also be found in ravines and cliffs. [1] It prefers to live in decaying trees, stumps, and abandoned woodpecker hollows. [1] The vivid colors of the quetzal are disguised by the rainforest. [15]

  5. The World's Coolest Rainforests

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  6. This rainforest is full of tiny, miniature creatures - AOL

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    While the animals in the Amazon are often larger than life, this South American rainforest region have some of the world’s smallest creatures This rainforest is full of tiny, miniature creatures ...

  7. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

  8. Fauna of Borneo - Wikipedia

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    Orang Utan (Pongo pygmaeus) is among the most iconic animals of Borneo and the flagship of rainforest conservation in South-East Asia. Borneo is the third largest island in the world. In prehistoric times it was connected to the Asian mainland due to geological and climate changes.

  9. Blue-and-yellow macaw - Wikipedia

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    He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus ararauna. [2] This macaw is now one of the eight extant species within the Ara genus, first proposed in 1799 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède. [3] [4] The genus name is from ará meaning "macaw" in the Tupi language of Brazil.