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Plants:
The address I sent you before was one of the pages of the site, the
following is the home page address:

http://www.junglephotos.com/plants/amazplants.html

Here are presented but a tiny fraction of the virtually countless different
kinds of plants. Most of the plants here are well-known and have been
described by scientists.

http://www.junglephotos.com/plants/epiphytes/epiphytes.html


Mammals:

http://www.junglephotos.com/homepage/sitemap.html

This page provides a complete directory of over 350 HTML pages in the
Jungle Photos Amazon domain. Each page may feature more than one image. It
has great information on mammals, fish, birds, insects, amphibians, and
much more on the Amazon jungle.

http://www.rain-tree.com/schoolreports.htm

Pictures and facts about the Amazon Rainforest and all its species can be
found on this great web site! The author has traveled there and provides
first-hand knowledge.

http://www.junglephotos.com/homepage.html

Cool site with great, colorful photos of all the animals, plants, and
people of the Amazon. Click on each picture to get information about each
image.


Amphibians/Reptiles/Fish:

<http://www.aqua.org/animals/species/prpdfrog.html>

<http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/poisonarrowfrog.htm>

<http://www.hensonrobinsonzoo.org/a002.html>

<http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/commerce/account/frogs/frog.htm>

<http://zoltantakacs.com/zt/pw/re/h26.shtml>

<http://www.mongabay.com/0501.htm>

<http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/Animals.shtml>

<http://www.scz.org/animals/g/henkel.html>

http://www.rainforestconservation.org/data_index.html  
- has species data sheets on mammals, reptiles/amphibians, birds but the fish  link wasn't working. Good information on many animals from the  rainforest.   
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues99/jul99/piranha.html 
-  interesting general information about the piranha with a picture.   
http://www.animalsoftherainforest.org/frames.htm 
-  has pull down menus for all types of rainforest animals including fish. Provides  excellent scientific information about each animal.
 

Arthropods:

http://arachnophiliac.com/burrow/home.htm
 If it has eight legs (Tarantula or Other Spider, Scorpion or Other Arachnid) or no legs (Snakes or Snails), then you will find something about it here.

http://www.greentracks.com/tarantula.htm
One of the world's truly great places, the Amazon simply cannot be matched.....but the chance for you to experience it in the company of three of the world's foremost experts...now that's really saying something!
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 Photo Gallery of Amazonas with a picture of the Amazon Morpho Butterfly

Cultures
Pictures of Yagua natives.
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Pictures of the people of the Amazon.
http://www.christiananswers.net/kids/rainforest/home.html
These are pictures of the jungle that our 7th graders go to.
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this site describes the Machigengua of the Peruvian Amazon.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001434/index.php?object=194

This site gives information on the Yagua natives of Peru.
http://www.earthwatch.org/ed/pm/lessons/culture.html

This site is about the Omagua natives of the Peruvian rainforest.
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/cultural/southamerica/omaguanculture.html

Bird sites

http://www.enature.com/guides/select_Birds.aspa
this site is searchable nature and wildlife database with information and photographs on birds.

http://www.junglephotos.com/animals/birds/birds.html 
The Amazon is a birdwatcher's paradise and that is not tourist brochure
hype. About 1,500 bird species are known from lowland Amazonia

http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~vivek/birds.html 
A very brief photo-tour of the Peruvian Amazon - from my trip to the rainforests near Iquitos, Peru, in May 1995.  This site includes pictures of  birds, animals, flora, the river, and the forest.

http://www.nenature.com/Birds.htm 
Links to photos and information about birds.
 

Ecosystems
http://www.cfact.org/IssueArchive/rainforest.bp.197.txt

This site is text format but full of many intersting statistics and
information relating to the ecosystem.  Scroll down to find a question that
is appropriate to your area, then read the corresponding information.

rainforestweb.org

This site is a great general information site with reports and pictures
covering a number of related topics.