Qualla: Wildlife of Brazil https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/0/p/wildlife-of-brazil-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wildlife of Brazil https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil Wildlife of Brazil: Introduction https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil/ Photo credit Public domain. The heaviest spider in the world is the Goliath birdeater, and it lives in the Amazon. Its body can span a dinner plate. It does not, in fact, often eat birds, despite the name - it prefers earthworms and insects - but it will tackle a small bird or a bat if the chance presents itself. The Goliath is one animal among an estimated 70,000 insect species and 1,107 non-marine mollusc species and more than 500 mammal species and a thousand-plus bird species that together make Brazil the most biodiverse country on the planet. No other country has more recorded plants, freshwater fish, amphibians, snakes, or mammals. Brazil holds roughly one-tenth of every species living on Earth.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/0/p/wildlife-of-brazil-wp/6v0p-wildlife-of-brazil-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wildlife of Brazil: The Numbers That Do Not Settle https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil/ Photo credit Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0. Counting Brazilian wildlife is a task with no bottom. Scientists have described somewhere between 96,660 and 128,843 species of invertebrates within the country's borders, and the estimate may still be low. Brazil has 60,000 recorded plant species and 55,000 confirmed ones - more...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/0/p/wildlife-of-brazil-wp/6v0p-wildlife-of-brazil-the-numbers-that-do-not-settle.mp3 0:06 2 full Wildlife of Brazil: The Predators https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil/ Photo credit Luc Antunes, CC BY-SA 3.0. The jaguar is Brazil's great cat. It slips through the floodplains of the Pantanal and the rainforest canopy of the Amazon, the apex predator of both biomes. Alongside it move five other wild felines: the puma, the smaller margay and ocelot, the rare oncilla, and the long-legged ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/0/p/wildlife-of-brazil-wp/6v0p-wildlife-of-brazil-the-predators.mp3 0:06 3 full Wildlife of Brazil: Water, and What Lives in It https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil/ Photo credit Adtormena, CC BY-SA 4.0. The pink river dolphin - the boto - is the world's largest river dolphin, and it surfaces in the muddy water of the Amazon and its tributaries, flushing pink when excited and fading to gray when at rest. Indigenous mythology across the basin turns the boto into a shapeshifter who...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/0/p/wildlife-of-brazil-wp/6v0p-wildlife-of-brazil-water-and-what-lives-in-it.mp3 0:06 4 full Wildlife of Brazil: The Rhea and the Toucan and the Frog https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil/ Photo credit Arpingstone, Public domain. The largest bird in Brazil is the rhea - a flightless ratite, a cousin of the emu and the ostrich, running on long legs across the grasslands of the cerrado and the pampas. Gauchos herded cattle through rhea country for centuries; the bird is on the national emblem of several int...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/0/p/wildlife-of-brazil-wp/6v0p-wildlife-of-brazil-the-rhea-and-the-toucan-and-the-frog.mp3 0:06 5 full Wildlife of Brazil: What Is Being Lost https://qualla.com/wildlife-of-brazil/ Photo credit Vaguinho86, CC BY-SA 3.0. More than one-fifth of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has been cleared. Of 202 animals officially listed as endangered in Brazil, 171 live in the Atlantic Forest - the band of coastal rainforest that once covered a million square kilometers and has been reduced to scattered fragments...

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