Research sources
Amazon Field Guide
Magazine-style articles about rainforest animals and the dangers they face. Pick a topic, read carefully, and gather notes for your information report.
Wildlife
- Jaguar The Amazon’s quiet ambush hunter
- Sloth The Amazon’s slow canopy specialist
- Piranha The Amazon’s misunderstood river cleaner
- Poison dart frog Tiny jewels with a deadly secret
- Leafcutter ant The Amazon’s tiny fungus farmers
- Harpy eagle Crowned giant of the canopy
- Giant anteater Living vacuum of the grassland edge
- Giant otter River wolves running out of water
- Amazon river dolphin Pink sentinel of the flooded forest
- Macaw Rainbow sentries of the upper canopy