How many species of animal live in the amazon rain forest?
Millions if not billions, the exact number is unknown. We don’t know all the animals that live in the Amazon Rain Forest; it may take many lifetimes to determine just how many exist assuming they don’t go extinct first, which many are as habitat is lost to farming and the lumber industry. According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rain… “Wet tropical forests are the most species-rich biome, and tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in Africa and Asia. As the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity. One in ten known species in the world live in the Amazon Rainforest. This constitutes the largest collection of living plants and animal species in the world. The region is home to about 2.5 million insect species,[18] tens of thousands of plants, and some 2,000 bird
