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2 unusual facts about igapó


Igapó

Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve - a 22,000-square-mile (57,000 km2) near Tefé, Brazil

Larger terrestrial mammals have varied strategies of dealing with flooding: red brocket deer and collared peccaries move into islands and shift diet from fruit to browsing woody plants.


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Guasiniidae

González-Sponga found the two first species inside bark under litter, G. persephone was also found inside soil, in an inundation-forest of black-water (igapó) at Tarumã-Mirim, near the mouth of Rio Negro, 20km upstream from Manaus.


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