Amazon River Map
Some bigger specimens can be more than two.five meters in length, and weigh more than 100kg. As properly as possessing gills, arapaima needs to surface each five – 15 minutes to breathe air into their enlarged and modified swim bladder, which is composed of lung-like tissue. Some locals use its bony scales as nail files, and the tongue is believed to have medicinal qualities, utilized to kill intestinal worms when mixed into a drink with guarana. Right now, about 1…