Brazilian Rain Forest. There are four references used for this paper.

The world is filled with a variety of climates, each with its own type of habitants. It is interesting to examine the Brazilian Rain Forest and determine the life style and sustainability of the rare and exotic animals that live there.

Understanding the Rain Forest

Brazil is the home to almost half of the Amazon basin. The "river and forest system covers 2.7 million sq. miles and stretches into eight countries besides Brazil, including Venezuela to the north, Peru to the west and Bolivia to the south. The river itself, fed by more than 1,000 tributaries, meanders for 4,000 miles and every hour the Amazon delivers an average of 170 billion gallons of water to the Atlantic (Linden,1989)."

Home to Thousands of Species

The Brazilian Rain Forest sustains so many species of life forms that biologists have difficulties in...
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