Brazil's Amazing Animal Facts

The Toco Toucan is carved onto tribal totem poles and is believed that it can be used by medicine men to fly to the spirit world.

Some tribes have a superstition that if a father eats or touches a toucan that his newborn child will be cursed.

The Toco Toucan is often captured to be sold in pet stores where it is sold for about $300.00.

Kellogg’s cereal has a Toco Toucan on its Fruit Loop boxes.

People once thought that Golden Lion Tamarins carried yellow fever and malaria.

The Golden Lion Tamarin can jump fifteen feet.

The Golden Lion Tamarin reintroduction program is one of the few successful reintroduction programs ever attempted.

There are no primates who live on the ground in the western hemisphere.

The gibbon is the only monkey who exceeds the Spider Monkey in agility in swinging through the trees.

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