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that catches fire easily. In the rainforest, it’s hard to find. Try fine wood shavings,
     cotton wool, bark, or the insides of birds’ nests. You might need to leave your tinder in the sunshine to dry out completely. Good tinder needs only a spark to make it catch light.
    •  Around your tinder, arrange a pyramid of kindling – small, dry twigs. If the outside of the twig is damp, cut it back until you reach dry wood.
    •  Once your kindling is burning well, add small pieces of dry wood. When the fire is hotter, you can use wood that’s a bit damp. It’ll be smoky,
     but that should keep biting insects away.
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Y our wound throbs as you walk, so you take it slowly. It’s not bleeding any more. You only hope it isn’t
    infected.
    A squawk makes you jump, and you look up to see a parrot, high up in the trees. You stop to watch the beautiful red and blue bird as it swoops away. As you follow its
    direction, you realise you were right earlier on – it does look brighter that way. You carry on, feeling optimistic.

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Y ou’ve taken a chance . . . and luckily the fruit is papaya, as you’d thought, and it’s safe to eat.
    You feel much better after eating the ripe, juicy flesh and the peppery-tasting seeds. You’ve been lucky this time, but it’s not a good idea to eat anything in the rainforest unless
    you are 100% sure of what it is.
    Although it’s not as good as actually drinking clean water, the juicy fruit will help to keep you hydrated too. With this in mind, you consider picking some more fruit
    to take with you. It might be heavy and awkward to carry, though, and the jungle seems to be full of edible plants. Then again, you can see some fruit that’s within reach around the other
    side of the tree.

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Y ou take off your clothes, wash them in the river, and leave them hanging on a branch to dry. You then wade into the
    water. It feels wonderful on your hot, clammy skin as you swim out, not far from the shore.
    Lots of people regularly swim in the Amazon. But you’re very unlucky, because you accidentally wake up an enormous black caiman, which is sleeping on the river bed.
    These animals usually hunt at night, but this one is hungry and loses no time in drowning and then eating an easy meal – you.
    The end.

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Amazon River Creatures
    As well as the black caiman that’s just had you for breakfast, the rivers and swamps of the Amazon are home to many types of fish and mammals . . .
    •  The world’s largest freshwater fish, the pirarucu, lives in the Amazon. It’s enormous – around three metres long – and is unusual
     because it breathes air. Pirarucus have teeth on their tongues and the roof of their mouths and feed on other fish.
    •  You’re more likely to meet a spectacled caiman than a potentially dangerous black caiman. They are more common, lighter in colour and smaller. They
     could still give you a nasty bite if you trod on one by accident, though.
    •  Pink river dolphins are freshwater mammals that live in the Amazon and Orinoco river systems, feeding on fish and crabs. They have long, thin snouts and are
     pale pink in colour. Males can be up to 2.5 metres long.
    •  The mata mata turtle is one of the strangest looking animals of the Amazon! It has a flat, triangular head covered in bumps and flaps of skin, and a long,
     thin snout. It’s well camouflaged and looks a bit like tree bark or a clump of fallen leaves. It lies in wait to ambush fish and other small creatures.
    •  The largest aquatic mammal of the Amazon is the huge manatee.
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Y ou try not to panic as you think about how to find water to wash your wound. There must