I’m doing a project for school (basically it’s like a survivor man experiment) and i tried googling stuff but it goes to the Amazon in general, but i need the river and not much far off into the actual jungle.
Some other things that would help is if you know:
1. What plants are edible.
2. What animals i could eat.
3. What you can do to evade predators
BTW I’m doing this with a partner and the only things we are equipped with are a kayak and a leatherman tool (each of us get our own)
From Wikipedia:
Along with the Orinoco, the river is one of the main habitats of the Boto, also known as the Amazon River Dolphin. The largest species of river dolphin, it can grow to lengths of up to 2.6 metres (8.5 ft). The boto is the subject of a very famous legend in Brazil, about a dolphin that turns into a human.
Also present in large numbers are the notorious piranha, carnivorous fish which congregate in large schools, and may attack livestock and even humans. However, only a few species attack humans, and many are solely fish-eaters, and do not school.
The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) has been reported 4,000 km (2,500 mi) up the Amazon River at Iquitos in Peru. The arapaima, or pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) is a South American tropical freshwater fish. It is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world, reportedly with a maximum length in excess of 3 m (9.8 ft) and weight up to 200 kg (440 lb). Another Amazonian freshwater fish is the arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) which is also a predator and very similar to the arapaima, but reaches a length of maximum 120 centimetres.
The Anaconda snake is found in shallow waters in the Amazon basin. One of the world’s largest species of snake, the Anaconda spends most of its time in the water, with just its nostrils above the surface.
The river supports thousands of species of fish, as well as crabs, algae, and turtles.