Candice Millard Quotes
Even More Complex And Dangerous Than The River Itself Were The Fishes, Mammals, And Reptiles That Inhabited It. Like The Rain Forest That Surrounds And Depends Upon It, The Amazon River System Is A Prodigy Of Speciation And Diversity, Serving As Home To More Than Three Thousand Species Of Freshwater Fishes - More Than Any Other River System On Earth. Its Waters Are Crowded With Creatures Of Nearly Every Size, Shape, And Evolutionary Adaptation, From Tiny Neon Tetras To Thousand-pound Manatees To Pink Freshwater Boto Dolphins To Stingrays To Armor-plated Catfishes To Bullsharks. By Comparison, The Entire Missouri And Mississippi River System That Drains Much Of North America Has Only About 375 Fish
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