Fauna

Amphibians and invertebrates

Frogs and toads are particularly numerous by the large water quantities in this region. And the visitor notices the group of the insects by her colours and forms particularly: seeming fragile like filigree dragon-flies (Libelulas), exotic butterflies (Borboletas), gigantic moth (Mari-posas), ants (Formigas) in different Grössen. A huge number of blood sucking mosquitos and other piercing insects makes the life difficult for the unprepared visitor, sometimes, though. One thinks in the abundance of the lakesides mussels, such as the Caramujo-Aruá, wished dish of the caymans and particularly the Gaviăo-Caramujeiro (species of falcon eating mussels). Your pink-coloured egg chains are stuck to the stems of the aquatic plants.

Caymans

In the course of decades millions of Jacarés (caymans) were killed in the Pantanal to sell the skins to leather products to the manufacturers of bags, shoes, belts and others. Drive these animals in the shallow water during the night, only her here prominent eye curvatures and nose openings jut out of the water surface. If one points the lamp beam at her, her eyes immediately reflect the light beam fiery red - one discovers her like the taillights of a braking car through this. So a practised hunter can abschiessen do her very easily or with a harpoon.  Within few hours of which they cut merely the belly side not exposed to the sun out, at that time, hundreds of these animals were the victim of those skin hunters who penetrated into the Brazilian Pantanal from the neighbouring state Paraguay at night, the many carcasses left her for the vultures as the most valuable skin part. Finally had to be used to put an end to this slaughtering the Brazilian armed forces.

Today, this problem is finally solved. Furthermore the Brazilian institute for environment (IBAMA) has assigned the authorization for the breeding of caymans in enclosures. Both her meat and her skins can be brought with breeding certificate in the trade now.

There also will be hunters as long as there are buyers for products which is from wild animals, though as long as, this one such animals abschiessen. A possibility of stopping such illegal hunting and the corresponding trade with living animals or their parts of the body, furs, feathers or skins, consists in notifying the authorities of her. Here the home page for the making contact: www.renctas.org

Piranhas

Many people think that these predatory fishes simply go for persons so to then carve up and swallow her with her pointed teeth. In reality "piranha" is a genetic name for different carnivorous species of the Süsswassers, normal which one wisely lives below the aquatic vegetation in shallow and calm waters. You hardly attack grössere animals unless they bleed from open wounds or penetrate into her territory. They then also rush extreme eatening in great concentrations on the unsuspecting spoils, be able to she tear a big spoils animal to pieces in such a case within few minutes, because.

In principle, one should not take a bath in stationary waters of the Pantanal, cool down only in rivers from a sandbank and themselves there in the shallower water without swimming in the deeper water! Because it has to be difficult said in which jobs the piranhas stay in great concentrations and still when one more difficult hurts her territory.

A good tip: The residents of the respective area generally know best and one should consult her before one jumps into a river or sea to a refreshing bath. The natural enemy of the piranhas is where caymans stay are the cayman the piranhas of some represented. But this helps you little because you do not trust the caymans as bathing comrades for certain over the way - or what either?

"NINHAL"

It is usually it a gigantic combine of protruding trees on which the different sten types have built her nests of waterfowls - one also mentions these flat-sharing communities "to Vivei-ros" (approximately: Life communities). You find yourself as clusters of trees, as a rule, the individual residents much find food on the edge of lagoons, seas and riverbanks into and to the water. Such a flat-sharing community has different advantages for the individual members: for example that one of the major part sera chance in front of spoils hunters to be warned and to survive so. The dispute about the daily food at the water keeps in limits because food is much available during the complete incubation in the jobs chosen for the flat-sharing community.  


"PIRACEMA" - the close of the fish

If the fish swim against the current to reach her spawning grounds and reproduce, one calls himself the period between October and March in Brazil "Piracema". The undisturbed unfolding of this phenomenon is the rivers and seas of the Pantanal also of fundamental significance for the known richness in fish. Of Mato Grosso and of Mato Grosso do Sul both that one of the amateurs makes the biggest efforts to stop not only the fishing completely within these special months but the fishing to the governments -, together these were limited to the welfare of the future fish population like that one of the professional subject rules and controls, represented by her "Polícia lowest point of gauze" (conservation police) as well as the Land government in Brasília, represented by the IBAMA (environmental protection authority).


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