Aquila | Amazon
The Amazon River - ecosystem Amazon basin Andes - threats from ranchers roads farmers miners - transpiration / The Yanomami - Guardians of the forest indigenous peoples way of life threats to survival / In the pink - Pink River Dolphins cervical vertebrae melon echolocation biosonar 'botos' 'Encantados' 'Encante' / Make a macaw mask / What's in your rainforest - titan beetle Hercules beetle bullet ant amber phantom butterflies Goliath birdeater peanut bug turtle-tear-drinking butterflies leafmimic katydid / Bank it! - Bio-banks habitat destruction genebank liquid buffer liquid nitrogen seeds spores seed banks field bank Millennium Seed Bank Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Extract DNA from soft fruit polyploidy diploid triploid hexaploid octoploid / What's that stink? Hoatzin birds - folivorous crop metabolisation / How do you count the plants in a rainforest? - Herbarium sheet Royal Botanic Gardens Kew quarantine freezers botanical illustrators Pierre-Joseph Redoute Margaret Mee / Ant maths - Marco Dorigo ant communication trail pheromones logistics / Fawcett and the Lost City of Z - Percy Fawcett Hiram Bingham Machu Picchu / Battle for the Amazon story by reader James Lavery, aged 11 / Please look after this bear - Paddington in Peru spectacled bear Andean cloud forest Paddington Tour in South America / Let's debate - Uncontacted tribes - should they be left alone, or contacted? / Make woven wall art with card strips / Bouncebackability - science of rubber synthetic latex rubber tapping polymers monomers Charles Goodyear vulcanisation elasticity petroleum - make a rubber band using dandelions / Shanay-Timpishka - Boiling River Project of the Amazon Andrés Ruzo Yacumama geothermal potential hydro-thermal systems geothermal gradient extremophiles / Foodini - fabulous food parcels Amazonian street food Peruvian Juanes recipe / How to Make a Raven Laugh story by Amy Sparkes
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Aquila Amazon.