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Colin McEwan

Pictured: the black-eared fairy (Heliothryx aurita) whose habitat is the lowlands of the Amazon basin, as is the passionflower (Passiflora racemosa). Hummingbird and Passionflowers, c.1875–85, Martin Johnson Heade. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Unknown Amazon

Cultures of the tropical forest, both past and present.