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Went on a 2 hour jungle trek and was shown loads of plants and trees in the forest.
Walking Tree
The walking tree walks to sunlight by growing new roots that push or pull the tree trunk in the direction of the light. In a year it can walk 2 feet.
Fire Ant Tree
The fire ant is an ant that secretes acid from its feet as it walks. If it runs across your skin it looks and feels like you have been burned. The ants are in a symbiotic relationship with the tree, the ants live in the tree trunk and stop all the other trees growing in the area by eating them. It just looks like a normal tree until you tap the trunk and they all run out. In simpler times when a native tribe caught another tribes member they would bind them to the tree and then knock the trunk - death by ant!
Snakes
2 particularly aggressive and nasty snakes are the Trail Master and the Fer-de-Lance which bask in the sun on the open ground of the trail, both can kill.
Swinging on a vine in the Amazon... count it!
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