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What can a yellow shouldered Amazon eat?
Yellow shoulders are known to feed on the fruits of several native and non-native bushes and trees in the wild. Their diet also consists of various se...
How fast is the Amazon rainforest being destroyed?
According to 2018 satellite data compiled by a deforestation monitoring program called Prodes, deforestation has hit its highest rate in a decade. Abo...
What is the largest animal in the Amazon?
The biggest water-dwelling mammal, and probably the biggest mammal in the Amazon altogether, is the Amazonian Manatee. A distant relative of the eleph...
What is the biggest plant in the Amazon rainforest?
The biggest tree of the Amazon rainforest is the Kapok Tree. It can grow to 200 feet tall and the trunk can be 10 or 11 feet in diameter. What is the ...
How many tribes in the Amazon?
The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest. It is also the ancestral home of 1 million Indians. They are divided into about 400 tribes, each with it...
What are southeast Asia rainforest threats?
Every year, mankind burns away vast forest areas of Southeast Asia to make way for oil palm and other plantations. ... In Malaysia, too, logging and o...
What do Amazon rainforest people eat?
Amazonian cuisine includes many freshwater fish such as peixe nobre (noble fish), the pirarucu (the world's largest freshwater fish), and tambaqui. Sm...
Why is the Amazon important?
The Amazon rainforest plays an important part in regulating the world's oxygen and carbon cycles. It produces roughly six percent of the world's oxyge...
What is the most numerous animal in the rainforest?
Insects are the most numerous animals in rainforests. What is the most common animal found in the Amazon rainforest?What is the most abundant mammal i...