World Cup Visitors: Exotic Amazon Animals Abound In Brazil

In this May 20, 2014 photo, Evandro Correia da Silva, left, holds a snake as his 3-year-old daughter Kelly Silva places it around her neck on their family's floating house in the Lago do Janauari, or Solimoes River, near Manaus, Brazil. Their exotic houseguests help the 35-year-old fisherman and his family eke out a living on the opposite bank from Manaus, a World Cup host city where the U.S., English and Italian teams will be among those battling it out. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this May 20, 2014 photo, a sloth crawls next to a chair on the Silva family floating house in the Lago do Janauari, or Solimoes River, near Manaus, Brazil. Tourist boats dock on what effectively is the Silva familys front doorstep, and the family snaps into action, peeling the reluctant sloths from the legs of the plastic patio table, rousing the retiring snake from its hiding spot in the corner and offering up the snapping, 2-foot-long caiman to the cameras. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this May 18, 2014 photo, residents use refrigerator doors as floating tables outside their floating house on the Rio Negro in Cacau Pirera, near Manaus, Brazil. A World Cup host city, Manaus far-flung location in the heart of the worlds biggest rainforest makes it reachable only by plane or boat. Thousands of foreigners are expected to begin arriving in the Amazonian metropolis for the international soccer matches being held in Manauss new multi-million dollar soccer stadium. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this May 20, 2014 photo, a small monkey stands in a tree in the Lago do Janauari, or Solimoes River, near Manaus, Brazil. Star animal attractions in the area include a heart-melting array of monkeys, flesh-eating piranhas, and the boto, a pink fresh water dolphin thats trained to swim with tourists or chopped up by locals into bait for the piracatinga, or vulture catfish. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this May 20, 2014 photo, a sloth holds itself on the deck of the Silva family's floating house on the Lago do Janauari, or Solimoes River, near Manaus, Brazil. Between the parents, the four kids, the dog, the two sloths, the python and the baby caiman, its a tight fit in the Silva familys two-room floating home in the Amazon rainforest. The exotic houseguests help 35-year-old fisherman Evandro Correia da Silva and his family eke out a living on their native Solimoes River, on the opposite bank from Manaus, a World Cup host city where the U.S., English and Italian teams will be among those battling it out. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this May 21, 2014 photo, boys rest after playing in the ruins of Paricatuba, near Manaus, Brazil. Darker things, too, are said to take place inside these crumbling walls. Theres the room fitted out with rusting, vine-engulfed bars that once kept prisoners in check. Theres a former bathroom with spooky red streaks along one of the walls and a straw broom leaning in the corner, left there, one of the kids suggested, by a witch. Theres the spot where, legend has it, lepers bodies were burned. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)