Posted by: kcollazo | February 22, 2010

The Amazing Amazon

We read about the amazing pink dolphins of the Amazon River.  Now you’ve had a chance to watch a short video to learn more about the interesting Amazon River and its inhabitants.  Tell us all about what you learned!

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  1. The monkeys that live In the Amozon rain forest have sharp & big teeth.The giant biactacal Is the hugest fish there. The scientist are there to collecting DNA of the animals. They chew with there tongs because they don’t have teeth. The animal can be on land & water.

  2. Did you know that Manaus is the biggest city in the Amazon? Also bananas are the most common food in the Amazon. The smallest animal there is the Squirrel Monkey. I think the coolest animal there is the Monkey Frog because they can be invisible on leaves. They also can walk.

  3. The Gigantic pirarucu fish is the largest fish in the world. It has a big tongue and likes to eat hard creatures. This fish can take air into its mouth and it makes it swim better. A monkey frog can walk instead of hopping all the time. A Red Face Monkey has powerful teeth to crunch up hard creatures. It has a short tail and a bold face.

  4. Jeff Corwin went to go to a secret place to see some predator. Jeff is trying to catch piracuru. And that fish eats catfish Jeff can only eat bananas. The snake has eaten a frog. This monkey is rare but that monkey has red face.

  5. The pirarucu is a fresh water fish. The pirarucu eats other creatures with hard heads such as cat fish. The pirarucu breaths in the water when the air and the water goes with it’s blatter. The monkey frog can really walk from leaf to leaf instead of jumping like regular frogs do.

  6. In the video I watched they were in Brazil city of Manaus. In the Amazon River there are some big fish like the Pirarucu the fish of the Amazon. The video then we watched had a part about a poisons snake. In the Amazon there are Squirrel monkeys in the Amazon River. In the Amazon River there are a lot of monkey frogs. There are some cool geckos. There are some middle size Red face monkeys. They are becoming excited. They are so cute.

  7. The animals live in a jungle way deep into the forest. The bolthrops snake is very venomous it has lots of stripes. The monkey frog blends in with the leaves it, when it leaps in gets into a down position. The bananas are the most common food; they have a very lemon flavor. The red face monkey eats all the fat off of the nut it’s eating, it weighs up to 7 and 8 pounds. The pirarucu fish is the biggest fish in the Amazon River it eats giant catfish.

  8. You are going to learn about Animals from the amazon. Piracuru it is the largest species of fresh water in the world. It likes to eat animals with hard heads like cat fish.Female fish have red scales, and it is wider than males. The snake is called bothropes and it they from South Amrica. Squarl monkeys are the smallest monkeys in South America. A monkey frog can jump off of something and land on a leaf then stick to it. It can stay ther eso it can blen din so any animal will not try to eat them. A red faced monkey have very sharp K9 teeth. They have a tail 6 inches long and it is very short. Bannanas are the fruite they eat most is Brazil.

  9. In the Amazon if there is water there is fish. The female fish is called the Pirarucu these animals are very dangerous and very ellegant at the same time The female has whit scales while the male has red scales it is strong and powerful animal too. The national fruit in Brazil is bannanas. The Bothrops is on of the venoumous and dangerous animals in Brazil. The Bothrops can it a whole monkey frog. The squirrel monkey is very active and move around a lot to. A monkey frog can hide like a chameleon. Monkey frogs are extrodinary species active as well. The Red-Faced Uakian Monkey eats Brazil nuts. Yummy! They work with there teeth to pry the nut open hard. The Red- Monkey is endangered they are being hunted and they have short tail. They are compared to Wolly Monkeys tail to.

  10. A {fish}biactacal eats catfish.They have huge touges.Female biactacal have red scales.Some snakes eat monkey frogs.Monkey frogs stick to leaves.A red face monkey looks like it needs sunblock.

  11. I am going to tell you some things about the Amazon.
    One of the smallest monkeys in the Amazon is the Squirrel Monkey. The female Pirarucu is fat because it stores baby fish and has red scales. The male Pirarucu has a lot of red scales. Bananas are the most popular fruit in the Amazon. The Red face monkey is endangered.

  12. Hey, did you know that the Rio Negro is one of Brazil’s amazon’s many tributaries. A bothrop snake loves to eat monkey frogs you would be able to feel the monkey frog’s little hands inside the snake’s body. A banana is one of the national fruits of Brazil. I do like the red-faced uakari they are bald and the amazing thing about them is that they are becoming extinct and they being hunted, too. The monkey frog is amazing because they walk and jump from tree to tree.

  13. You are going to learn about Animals from the amazon. Piracuru it is the largest species of fresh water in the world. It likes to eat animals with hard heads like cat fish.Female fish have red scales, and it is wider than males. The snake is called bothropes and it they from South Amrica. Squirrl monkeys are the smallest monkeys in South America. A monkey frog can jump off of something and land on a leaf then stick to it. It can stay ther eso it can blen din so any animal will not try to eat them. A red faced monkey have very sharp K9 teeth. They have a tail 6 inches long and it is very short. Bannanas are the fruite they eat most is Brazil.

  14. I learned that the Pirarucu eats catfish. And there is a venomous snake called the Bothrops. In the video, the snake had probably eaten a Monkey frog. There was another animal called the Red face Monkey. They can rip nuts open cause the have canine teeth. And when they eat the nut, they eat the nutrients in it.

  15. The piracuru is brizl’s biggest fish. Balltroxatrox is a beautiful snake and is venumnumness. Squirll monkys are the smallest monky in south america. Red faced ocarteter monky is a monky that is balled in the face.

  16. Did you know that people in the amazon keep the amazon clean so the animals stay alive like the manta a mail manta has dark red marks and the femail has lite red marks

  17. Did you now that Squirrel monkeys have long tails? Monkey frogs lay on flat leaves. Pirarucu have red scales. Pirarucu can breathe for 15 minutes and that is a long time. Bothrops have spots all over them.

  18. This is about the Amazon River. This is the real RIO NEGRO of one of the amazon many territories. First i am going to connect with my friend Alex he is a real biologist. If it is water in the amazon then there are fist there. You can tell if the fish is a female or male because the female has light white strikes on it and a male has red on it. The name of the fish is could the

  19. This is about the Amazon River. This is the real RIO NEGRO of one of the amazon many territories. First i am going to connect with my friend Alex he is a real biologist. If it is water in the amazon then there are fist there. You can tell if the fish is a female or male because the female has light white strikes on it and a male has red on it. The name of the fish is could the Gigantic Pirarucu.


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