The weather and climate in winter at a rainforest can get as

low as 15 degrees. In winter there is a lot of rain!! It is likely to be wet and cold. There is no

season that has no rain.

The weather and climate in summer at a rainforest can get

as high as 25 degrees. In summer there is still a lot of

rain!! It is likely to be worm and damp.

You will most likely find a rainforest everywhere, except the Antarctic where it

is mainly ice. Rainforests are full of all different things. No rainforest is exactly

the same as another.

Some locations of a rainforest include:Africa, Central Africa, Central America and Southern America, Peru, Amazon, Sothern Asia, Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia

and Australia.

Jambu, Bengal Bamboo, Bougainvillea, Curare, Coconut tree, Durian,

Mangrove forest, Strangler Figs, Tualang, Orchids, Bromeliads, Epiphyses, Buttress Roots, Lianas.

Orchids come in all different colours, shapes and sizes. Although they are found almost everywhere in the world, the huge majority of orchids in found in rainforests.

There are more than 500 species of orchids found in the Amazon. There are

about 15,000 to 25,000 different types of orchids. There are more orchids in a

rainforest than any biome in the world.Did you know that he flavour vanilla

came from the vanilla orchid?

Did you know that some people believe that the coconut palm in

the symbol on romance in the tropic? There are many varieties of coconut trees! The smallest is called the Dwarf palm. Coconut trees have leaves that are 15-17 feet long. The leaves are yellow

greenish colour. The trunk is light grey.

African Elephant, Alpaca Anteater, Amazon Butterfly, Amazon Stingray,

Arapaima, Army Ant, Aye-Aye Monkey, Bald Eagle, Bengal Tiger,

Blue and Yellow Macaw, Cape Buffalo, Chimpanzee, Pygmy

Marmoset, Pygmy Chimpanzee, Rainbow Boa, Scarlet Macaw, Sloth,

Vampire Bat, Woolly Monkey.

Pygmy Marmosets are one of the smallest primates in the rainforest, in fact the smallest monkey in the world! They have a body length between 12 and 15 cm. A height between 17 and 23 cm. they weigh between 100 and 125g.

Their fur is tawny in colours and they have a ringed tail that

is at least the length of its

body. Most of their lives are

spent up in the trees and rarely

are on the ground. Their

colouring provides them to camouflage.

This monkey has a specialized

diet of gum.

Did you know that the Pygmy Marmoset

can jump as far as 16 feet? They are only the size of a

fool grown human finger!

The Bengal tiger is a mammal. Did you know that the Bengal tiger capable of killing animals over twice its

size? The Bengal tiger is a carnivore, in other words a meat eater. Bengal tigers hunt big animals such as pigs, deer, antelopes and buffalo for their diet. A

male tiger can range up to the size of about 3 meters and the female can grow up to the size of 2.7 meters. The male can weigh up to 225kg and the female can

weigh 135kg. The Bengal tigers coat is a reddish orange colour with narrow black, grey or brown

stripes and icy blue eyes that will freeze you in fear!

Orchid

Macaw

Python

Hawk snake

Frog

Shrew

Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day.

Because there are so many trees in a rainforest, to can take up to 10 minutes for the rain to reach the ground.

Some rainforest monkeys are omnivores, eating both animals and plants.

Over 2,000 different species of butterflies are found in the rainforests on South America.

Flying animals of Asian rainforests include frogs, squirrels and snakes.

1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.

80% of flowers in the Australian rainforest are not found anywhere else in the world.

The rainforests of Central Africa are home to more than 8,000 different species of plants.

In the moist rainforests of South America, sloths move so slowly that algae can grow on their fur.

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