As a steady rain falls in the Amazon the world's largest rainforest a female Amazonian
manatee swims through the flooded wetlands She is preparing to give birth
As a steady rain falls in the Amazon the world's largest rainforest a female Amazonian manatee swims through the flooded wetlands She is preparing to give birth Safe from predators and human interference in Brazil's Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve the manatee swims peacefully through the shallows using her Alippers to push off the spongy bottom She has timed her birthing well as the wetlands
