A fourth species, the giant peccary ( Pecari maximus ) was recently described from the Brazilian Amazon by Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen.

The work was described by Rohrlich as a " fictional counterpart " to " so-called Amazon societies ".

Since then he has walked the entire length of the river Ganges in India ( the 3000 km walk is recounted in A Walk Along the Ganges ) and travelled extensively in the Amazon and ( journeys that were described in Amazon and Savages: The Life and Killing of the Yanomami ).

In an interview for a Dad's Army retrospective on BBC television in 2010, Lowe's co-star, Clive Dunn, described him sitting at the bar in the evenings when they were filming on location, consuming a drink which Lowe named ' Amazon ' after his yacht.

Nonprofit organization Amazon Watch described the outcome of the case as " unprecedented ".

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In 2002, a new species was described, found in the Atlantic forest and the southeastern Amazon of Brazil ( and later also confirmed for adjacent parts of Bolivia ).

The boto of the Amazon River regions is described according to local lore as taking the form of a human or merman, also known as encantado (" enchanted one " in Portuguese ) and with the habit of seducing human women and impregnating them.

The Blue-fronted Amazon was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work, Systema Naturae.

The number of known species of titis has doubled in recent years, with four, C. stephennashi, C. bernhardi, C. caquetensis, and C. aureipalatii, being described from the Amazon basin since 2000.

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In a study of three traditional Caboclo populations in the Brazilian Amazon, açaí palm was described as the most important plant species because the fruit makes up a major component of their diet, up to 42 % of the total food intake by weight.

The Puerto Rican Amazon was described by Dutch ornithologist Pieter Boddaert in 1783.

Currently the Yagua live in some 30 communities scattered throughout a section of the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon basin which can roughly be described as a rectangle 200 miles wide and 350 miles long ( 70, 000 sq.

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Uakti is a mythical musician described by the Tucano people of the Alto Rio Negro region of the Amazon.

* The nominate race, G. a. aequinoctialis, described above, breeds from central Colombia, through northern Venezuela, Trinidad, the Guianas, to the regions near the Amazon River in Brazil.

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The Amazon has over 1, 100 tributaries, 17 of which are over long.

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The Madeira River is a major waterway in South America, approximately 3, 250 km ( 2, 020 ) miles long The Madeira is the biggest tributary of the Amazon.

The Xingu River ( pronounced " shingoo "), also called Rio Xingu, is a 1, 230-mile long, ( 1979 km ) river in north Brazil ; it is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

The Amazon river dolphin specializes in hunting in these habitats, taking advantage of its unusually flexible neck and spinal cord to maneuver among the underwater tree trunks, and using its long snout to extract prey fish from hiding places in hollow logs and thickets of submerged vegetation.

Arrow sizes vary greatly across cultures and range from very short ones that require the use of special equipment to be shot to ones in use in the Amazon River jungles that are long.

In 1984, Martin, who has long been involved in environmental causes, appeared in a public service announcement to help save pink dolphins in the Amazon River.

Finally, drinking an infusion of " Chanca Piedra ", or " Break Stones " ( Phyllanthus niruri ), a plant that is native to the Amazon, has long been used in South American traditional medicine to maintain kidney, liver, and gallbladder health and to treat gallstones and kidney stones and jaundice.

In the mythology and folklore of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin, the giant anteater is depicted as a trickster foil to the jaguar as well as a humorous figure due to its long snout.

It is used to prepare ayahuasca, a decoction with a long history of entheogenic uses as a medicine and " plant teacher " among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rainforest.

; Amazon Advenure: The Amazon Advenure is a quarter-mile long, deep, Tropical River that runs through a section of the park.

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Iquitos has long been a major port in the Amazon Basin.

The Tapajós, a Brazilian river running through a humid and hot valley, pours into the Amazon River 500 miles above Pará and is about 1200 miles long.

As a testament to the show's pop culture references ( which lasted for the show's entire seven-year long run ), one of the Village People can be seen in the background of " The Island of Beautiful Men " in the series ’ third pilot episode, Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women.

In the Amazon region, the locals often salt and dry the meat, rolling it into a cigar-style package that is then tied, and can be stored for a long time without rotting, which is very important in a region where few have refrigeration.

The Blue-fronted Amazon is a mainly green parrot about 38 cm ( 15 in ) long.

The Yellow-shouldered Amazon is mainly green and about 33 cm long.

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The White-fronted Amazon, at about 25 cm ( 10 in ) long, is the smallest of the Amazon parrots.

The private jet lost a wing tip and part of its tail, but landed safely in a Brazilian military air base located in the Amazon jungle.

* R. n. cinerescens is larger, has dusky underwings, and only a narrow white fringe to its black tail, and breeds in northern and northeastern South America and the Amazon basin.