Top5 Shocking Facts Of Amazon Forest

Amazon forest which is also called rainforest. Amazon forest is so vast and big that even scientists have not been able to know and understand it completely yet. They do not know how many mysteries this forest holds in itself. Scientists have been doing research in the Amazon forest not just today but for many decades and every time some such information comes out in the research which is quite surprising. Scientists claim to have seen some such things which are impossible to see in the outside world of the Amazon forest.

The Amazon forest is so big that it has a world of its own and our access to that world is very little or negligible right now. Whenever there is a new discovery about this forest, then we come to know that what do we know about this forest. Friends, in this article I will tell you some such interesting things about the Amazon forest, after knowing which you will also be forced to think that how dangerous and mysterious this forest would be.

5) Amazon Trees

Millions and crores of species of trees and plants are found in this forest. Some of these trees and plants are normal and some are extremely poisonous. This is a normal thing, if there is such a big and dangerous forest then it is obvious that the plants found in it will also be dangerous. But the interesting thing is that there are some trees in this forest which are famous as walking trees.

If you are fond of watching movies then you must have often seen in many films that trees and plants suddenly start walking. But do trees walk only in movies? This is not so. Trees walk in reality too and this is not said by us but by scientists who have been researching in the Amazon forest for many years. Scientists who are researching in the Amazon forest believe that there are some trees in the forest which walk but they do not walk like any Hollywood movie. Rather, their walking speed is very slow.

Scientists are doing a lot of research on such trees. At the same time, some scientists say that these trees walk in the direction in which the sun moves forward. Actually, what happens is that the roots of this tree start moving forward according to the direction of the sun and the roots behind get destroyed. Because of this, this tree moves a little ahead of its place. This process does not happen in one or two days. Rather, this process takes 3 to 4 months and this is why these trees are called walking trees. These trees are very poisonous. According to researchers, these trees are found only in the Amazon forest.

Now we will know about some such trees in the Amazon forest, knowing which you will be even more surprised. Yes, according to the tribes living in the Amazon forest, there are some trees in the Amazon forest that also eat the flesh of humans and animals. These trees are called man-eating trees. You will definitely find it strange to hear that how can a tree eat meat. But it is true that only a few species of them are found in the Amazon forest. The thing to think is that if there can be man-eating trees in the Amazon forest, then how many more dangerous things can be present in this forest.

4) Boiling River

The Amazon jungle is considered to be the most dangerous jungle in the world. Because every kind of dangerous creatures, trees, plants, animals, birds and insects are present here. Then how can water be left behind. Yes, we are talking about the Boiling River flowing in the Amazon jungle. This is a river of boiling water because the temperature of the water of this river always remains between 45 to 100 degrees Celsius. This river is very dangerous like the Amazon jungle. It flows through the middle of the Amazon jungle. Why the water of this river boils is not yet completely descover.

3) Maricoxi

Amazon is not a small jungle, rather it is spread across nine countries. Scientists have been doing research in such a huge jungle not just today but for centuries. A British scientist who went to do research in the Amazon jungle, during his research, saw an animal in the Amazon jungle which was half human and half ape. Whose height was about 12 feet. This species is called Maricoxi.

He told that when he was doing research in the Amazon jungle, he found an animal of the Maricoxi species. Maricoxi also tried to attack the British scientist but the British scientist fired his gun on the ground surface due to which Maricoxi got scared and went away from there. After this the British scientist came out of the jungle. He told that Maricoxi lives in groups and they have their own separate colony.

2) Amazon Snake

The Amazon jungle is more dangerous than the beautiful creatures and birds living in it and this is what makes the Amazon jungle so dangerous. It is not only the trees and plants in the Amazon jungle that are dangerous. This is not the case at all. The creatures there are even more dangerous than this. It is said that such snakes are found in the Amazon jungle which are not found anywhere else on earth.

Generally, the largest snake found on earth is the Anaconda snake. According to scientists, the maximum length of an anaconda snake can be up to 30 feet. But in the year 1969, a scientist who went for research told that he has seen a 70 feet long snake in the Amazon jungle. The presence of such a long snake in the Amazon jungle is a surprise in itself. The maximum length of the Titanoboa species of snake, which became extinct thousands of years ago, was measured to be 42 feet. Which has been described as the longest snake in the world till now. But with this claim of scientists, the record of Titanoboa seems to be ending.

Apart from this, some other scientists have also claimed that they have seen snakes of 70 to 75 feet long in the Amazon jungle. Some of these scientists have even said that some of these snakes may also be of Titanoboa species. If this is really true, then it means that snakes of the Titanoboa species are still alive in the Amazon jungle. Research is still going on about this. But it is certain that the longest snakes found on earth live in the Amazon jungle. Be it Anaconda or Titanoboa.

1) Bullet Ant

Even the smallest ants seen in the Amazon jungle are extremely dangerous. These ants can be so dangerous because they have to protect themselves from large and dangerous animals. But you would have never thought that such a small ant can be so dangerous. If the ants found in the Amazon jungle bite a person, then he feels as much pain as if he was hit by a bullet. That is why these ants are called Bullet Ants.

If the ants living in the Amazon forest bite a person, he has to bear severe pain for five to six days. Not only this, some of these ants are also very poisonous. Their bite can even cause death of a person.

Friends, these were some shocking facts about the Amazon forest. Although the Amazon forest is so big that it produces 20% of the oxygen on earth. But even today we humans know very little about this forest. However, in the last few decades, there has been a lot of speed in its research. Now how many more such secrets come out from the Amazon forest, from which we are still miles away.