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The Amazon jungle is home to some of the most diverse lifeforms on the planet. It offers a rich habitat for a wide range of creatures. Join us, as we look at incidents and animals recorded in the Amazon nobody can believe.
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Walking Palm Tree
Of the more than 80,000 plant species that some scientists estimate the forests of the Amazon basin may be home to, perhaps one of the most unusual is Socratea mycorrhiza, better known in English as the "walking palm". In the tropical forests of South and Central America, trees and other plants must compete with the neighboring species that crowd in on them for two things essential to plant life nutrient-providing soil or biomass, and sunlight.
As its name suggests, the walking palm has evolved a remarkable method for ensuring it enjoys a competitive advantage in the struggle for life in the rainforest. The trunk of this slender 10- to 25-meter-high palm tree emerges from a cone-like set of aerial roots, visible above the ground. Acting like stilts, these roots keep the trunk, the diameter of which measures up to 20 centimeters, raised above the forest floor. The "Walking Palm" employs its aerial roots not as a way of stabilizing its slender structure, but as a method for "moving on" when the palm becomes shaded by other, larger trees, and the soil is stripped of its meager nutrients.
By producing new aerial roots, the walking palm can very slowly relocate to another part of the forest floor with better conditions for life; specifically, undisturbed nutrient-rich soil and improved access to life-giving sunlight. Some reports have claimed that this palm may be able to move up to twenty meters from its original position, in a process that can take up to two years. Now, that's what you call going with the flow!
Pink Dolphin
The Amazon River Dolphin, commonly known as the Pink River Dolphin or Boto, lives exclusively in freshwater. It is found in most of the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. It is a relatively plentiful freshwater cetacean, with an estimated population of tens of thousands. However, it is classed as vulnerable, because of some dams that separate and threaten specific populations, as well as other risks such as river and lake contamination.
The Amazon jungle is home to some of the most diverse lifeforms on the planet. It offers a rich habitat for a wide range of creatures. Join us, as we look at incidents and animals recorded in the Amazon nobody can believe.
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video here:youtu.be/vgAUIesxKbw
Watch our "15 Predators Battling And Hunting To Survive In The Wild"
video here:youtu.be/msWs4DJB5Eg
Walking Palm Tree
Of the more than 80,000 plant species that some scientists estimate the forests of the Amazon basin may be home to, perhaps one of the most unusual is Socratea mycorrhiza, better known in English as the "walking palm". In the tropical forests of South and Central America, trees and other plants must compete with the neighboring species that crowd in on them for two things essential to plant life nutrient-providing soil or biomass, and sunlight.
As its name suggests, the walking palm has evolved a remarkable method for ensuring it enjoys a competitive advantage in the struggle for life in the rainforest. The trunk of this slender 10- to 25-meter-high palm tree emerges from a cone-like set of aerial roots, visible above the ground. Acting like stilts, these roots keep the trunk, the diameter of which measures up to 20 centimeters, raised above the forest floor. The "Walking Palm" employs its aerial roots not as a way of stabilizing its slender structure, but as a method for "moving on" when the palm becomes shaded by other, larger trees, and the soil is stripped of its meager nutrients.
By producing new aerial roots, the walking palm can very slowly relocate to another part of the forest floor with better conditions for life; specifically, undisturbed nutrient-rich soil and improved access to life-giving sunlight. Some reports have claimed that this palm may be able to move up to twenty meters from its original position, in a process that can take up to two years. Now, that's what you call going with the flow!
Pink Dolphin
The Amazon River Dolphin, commonly known as the Pink River Dolphin or Boto, lives exclusively in freshwater. It is found in most of the Amazon and Orinoco River basins in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. It is a relatively plentiful freshwater cetacean, with an estimated population of tens of thousands. However, it is classed as vulnerable, because of some dams that separate and threaten specific populations, as well as other risks such as river and lake contamination.
