AMBER W.
                 I went on vacation to brazil and I went though the forest. I got to see a red-and-green-macaw. The Green-winged Macaw, also known as the Red-and-green Macaw, is a large mostly-red macaw of the Ara genus. This is the largest of the Ara genus, widespread in the forests and woodlands of northern and central South America. I also got to see the Channel-billed Toucan, a rare bird. The Channel-billed Toucan is a near-passerine bird which breeds in Trinidad and in tropical South America as far south as southern Brazil and central Bolivia.

              I’m in Brazil for a couple of weeks, Visiting family. My favorite thing about Brazil is the abundant fresh fruit, stuff you never hear about in the States. Shown here: figs, passionfruit juice, and atemóia, which is a hybrid between the cherimoya and the pinha. The flavor is sweet and wonderful and hard to describe, somewhere between a pear and a pineapple, and the texture is slightly chewy and fleshy like a lychee nut. I could eat these all day. I aslo tried a Gauva are plants in the Myrtle family  genus psidium, which contains about 100 species of the tropical  shrubs and small trees. They are native to Mexico, Centeral America, and northern South America. Guavas are now cultivated and naturalized thoughtout the tropics and subtropics in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, subtropical regions of North America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and Spain.

             When I went though the forest I also got to see lots of cool animals and plants. I didnt have a favorite animal or plant. I thought they were all so cool to watch. The wildlife of Brazil comprises all naturally occurring animals, fungi and plants in this South American country. Home to 60% of the Amazon Rainforest, which accounts for approximately one-tenth of all species in the world, Brazil is considered to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on the planet. It has the most known species of plants (55,000), freshwater fish (3000) and mammals. It also ranks third on the list of countries with the most number of bird species (1832) and second with the most reptile species. The number of fungal species is unknown, but must be huge. Approximately two-thirds of all species worldwide are found in tropical areas, often coinciding with developing countries such as Brazil. Brazil is second only to Indonesia as the country with the most endemic species.