The vast Amazon jungle always hides unexplored mysteries, making the trip into the forest fraught with danger but equally interesting and stimulating. Let's discover interesting things about the Amazon jungle through our article below.
1. Lizard Jesus
This is a common lizard species in Central and South America, especially in the vast Amazon forest. They live in the hollows of trees to warm up their body temperature. When startled by predators, these lizards often jump into streams or rivers to escape. They run very fast, can reach speeds of 15 to 16 miles per hour. If they were the size of a human, that speed would be 800 miles per hour. Because of the above agility, they can run on water like flying.
2. Darkness
In the densest parts of the Amazon, the forest canopy is very thick and blocks out 99% of sunlight, making the ground dark and becoming inhabited by unique flora and fauna. At the same time, with this phenomenon, the Amazon and other tropical forests help to regulate the temperature of the earth.
3. Amazon area is equivalent to Australia
Looking at the map, you will see the incredible size of Amazon. With an area of 5.5 million square kilometers, the Amazon forest is half the total territory of the United States of America (including Alaska and Hawaii) and roughly the size of Australia (7.7 million square kilometers).
4. Sandbox Tree
This is a tree in the rainforests of South, North America and the Amazon. Fishermen use sandbox plants to poison fish in the river. And the hunters in the Caribbean put poison on the tips of their arrows. The fruit of the tree will explode when ripe to disperse seeds at a distance of up to 45m, so this tree is also known as a dynamite tree.
5. Glass frog
Glass frogs belong to the amphibian family Centrolenidae, scientifically known as Hyalinobatrachium valerioi. The size of glass frogs is not large, they are usually 3 to 7.5 cm long. They are mainly active at night. Scientists do not know what this frog eats, but they think they can eat small insects. The skin under the belly of this frog is quite clear, so their heart, liver, and digestive tract can be seen.
6. Poison Dart Frog
This frog is known as the "color killer" - the name is derived from the Central - South American Indians taking their poison to impregnated the tip of the dart nose and serving the hunting process. . The color and display of this poison dart frog is a tacit announcement to the enemy about a self-protection and combat tactic known as: warding off with color.
7. Candiru
This is perhaps the most feared freshwater animal, despite its rather small size. In essence, candiru belongs to the catfish family, but they have always lived by eating larger fish in the Amazon. They are also very aggressive and will bite people if they happen to encounter them.
8. Bodele . Depression
Scientists have discovered an incredible connection between the world's largest desert (Sahara) and the world's largest tropical forest (Amazon) thanks to the Bodele depression. Accordingly, winds blowing across the Atlantic bring dust from the Bodele depression, a desert in the Republic of Chad, to the Amazon, making the forest fertile. Without this desert, the Amazon would not exist.
9. Electric eel
This is actually a breed of Knife fish, but they look and swim like an eel. According to biologists, thanks to a special system of internal organs, electric eels can generate electric currents stronger than 500 volts, enough to cause death. They mainly hunt invertebrates, although some large ones can eat both fish and small mammals. Electric eels only attack people if harassed.
10. Mysterious plants
One square kilometer of Amazon rainforest can hold about 90,790 tons of living plants. Therefore, it is estimated that about 99% of plant species in this forest have not been studied by scientists.
11. Tribes separate from world civilization
This tribe has been discovered living in the Javari Valley near the border with Peru. The newly discovered tribe may belong to the Pano language community, currently living in this area. The Javari Valley is considered to have "the highest concentration of isolated tribal groups in the Amazon and the world" and may be home to about 2,000 indigenous people from at least 14 tribes.
12. Rio Hamza Underground River
Everyone knows the Amazon River, but there is another equally important river in this forest. Unfortunately you won't be able to see it on the map. The Rio Hamza is an underground river much wider than the Amazon River, with a flow 40 times that of the Thames in England.
13. Anaconda
One of the largest snakes in the world, the anaconda lives in the watersheds and humid regions of South America. According to biologists, the name anaconda comes from the Tamil word for Elephant Killer. Pythons eat fish, birds, reptiles and small mammals, although they can sometimes attack each other. The anaconda is not venomous and usually kills its prey by suffocating it and breaking all its bones before swallowing it.
14. Pink Dolphin
Pink Dolphins - Pink Dolphin or Batos - are known to be the most intelligent dolphins of all species. Their brains are 40% larger than human brains. They are friendly, sensitive and have lived in harmony with humans for centuries, but now experts say they face extinction in some tributaries.
15. Bull Shark
Bull sharks usually live in freshwater areas and are found in the deep waters of the Amazon tributary such as Iquitos in Peru, 4,000 km from the mouth of the sea. This is a fish that can sense changes in the salinity of the surrounding water and can adapt to the new environment. This fish has a length of about 3.3 m, weighs 312 kg. Like other sharks, they have numerous pointed triangular teeth and very strong jaws with a bite force of up to 589 kg. The bull shark is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the world.
