Rainforest

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Rainforest

• Tyler, Sarah, Mackensee, and Jeremy

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Rainforest
A rainforest is a place where many animals
live.Different animals live in different parts
of the rainforest. A rainforest is very dense and
wet.The wet conditions of the rainforest makes
plants grow fast. In just five years, a tree can
grow to 80 feet high and 16 inches wide. The
highest trees are called emergents .The animals
that live on this part of the rainforest almost
never go down.These include insect-eating birds
like the night jar and fruit-eaters like the
hornbill and toucan.Predators like the South
American harpy eagle and the Philippine money
eating eagle also stay high above.
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The main canopy of the forest traps moisture and
shields the rainforest from wind.The majority of
species in the rainforest are found here.Our
survey identified 600 different spices of beetle
in one canopy. Snakes and big cats, like the
South American jaguar and ocelot and the
Southeast Asian clouded leopard , lie under the
shady canopy, waiting to catch their prey. They
feed anything from small mammals to reptiles. The
forest floor lies elephants, tapirs, deer,
gorillas, and other large mammals.
Tree Snake
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Tropical Rainforest Animals

• frogs Lizards
• Snakes Gorillas
• eagles Lemurs
• Monkeys Owls
• Hummingbirds Crabs
• Butterflies Otters
• Bats Bees
• Tiger Spiders
• Moth Mice Slug
• Koala
• Iguanas
• Apes

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INTERESTING FACTS

• Only monkeys from South and central America can
  grip with their tails.
• The South American douroucouli is the only
  nocturnal, or night, monkey in the world.
• Some lianas are over 3,500 feet ( 1,000 m) long.
• Jungles and rainforests cover less than 6 percent
  of the Earths land surface, about 3.5 million
  square miles.
• There are over 30 million species of insects
  living in the rainforest.
• Only five percent of sunlight reaches the forest
  floor.
• Loss of tropical forest is very great in Central
  America.

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Rainforest Plants

• Mosses Air Plants
• Vines Vanilla Plants
• Flowers Poison Ivy
• Trees Water Lilies
• Epiphyte Grass
• Fems
• Bushes