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Take an exotic journey in the Amazon, home to one-third of all living things.

Watch out for anacondas and piranhas, giant spiders and tiny toxic frogs. In churning river channels, still lakes and even flooded treetops look for tetras, turtles and fruit-eating fish called tambaqui. See how the region’s animals, plants and people adapt to the water’s dramatic annual rise and fall.
 
AMAZON RISING FAST FACTS
• 8,600-square-foot walk-through flooded forest created in two original galleries

• Habitat floodwaters peak at 6 feet

• 250 species including a giant snake, venomous ants and 73 kinds of catfishes




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