TROPICAL RAINFORESTS

ANIMALS

GALAGO

• They are commonly called "Bush Babies".
• They live in African rainforests no higher than 6,500 feet.
• They live off of what's in season, such as insects, berries, leaves
• They usually live in the hollows of trees that provide shelter.

OKAPI

• Okapi, like Galagos, live in African rainforests.
• Okapi are herbivores, feeding on leaves, grass, fungi, fruit, etc.
• They live in canopy forests, at altitudes between 1,600-4,900 feet.

PLATYPUS

• They live in Australia, in burrows.
• They eat larvae, worms, crayfish, and shrimp.
• The body and the broad, flat tail of the platypus are covered with dense, brown fur that traps a layer of insulating air to keep the animal warm.

SLOTH

• Sloths are arboreal and live in the treetops of Central and South America.
• The bulk of their diets consist of buds, tender shoots, and leaves, mainly of Cecropia trees. They also eat small reptiles, insects, and birds as small supplements.
• Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrients, and do not digest easily. Sloths, therefore, have large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves.

SUGAR GLIDER

• They live in Australia and New Guinea.
• Like the sloth, they are arboreal.
• They eat many things, such as sap, birds, native fruit, acacia seeds, and LOTS more.

PLANT LIFE

BENGAL BAMBOO

• Its preferred environment is between 40-100 degrees F. It grows very well in a moist environment with abundant rain.
• It adapts to its environment by growing tall fast so it gets a lot of rain and sunlight.

COCONUT TREE

• The coconut palm thrives on sandy soils and is highly tolerant of salinity. It prefers areas with abundant sunlight and regular rainfall.
• Coconut palms require warm conditions for successful growth, and are intolerant of cold weather.
• Coconut palms require warm conditions for successful growth, and are intolerant of cold weather. Some seasonal variation is tolerated, with good growth where mean summer temperatures are between 82 and 99 °F, and survival as long as winter temperatures are above 39–54 °F; they will survive brief drops to 0 °C (32 °F). Severe frost is usually fatal, although they have been known to recover from temperatures of 25 °F. They may grow but not fruit properly in areas with insufficient warmth.

DURIAN

• Regarded by many people in southeast Asia as the "king of fruits", the durian is distinctive for its large size, strong odour, and thorn-covered husk.
• The bark is dark brown, rough with many vertical splits. It peels off irregularly, an adaptation to prevent epiphytes, lianas and parasitic vines from growing on it.

JAMBU

• Jambu fruit's optimal condition is in tropical-like climates; they dry out quickly, so they are best cultivated in an atmosphere with warmth and moisture.
• It grows from India to Malaya.

RUBBER TREE

• The tree requires a tropical or subtropical climate with a minimum of about 1,200 mm/yr of rainfall, and without frost.

LANDSCAPE

• There is lots of plantation.
• The actual land of the rainforest is quite rocky.

CLIMATE/WEATHER

• In a tropical rainforests rain falls nearly every day. On average about 2,500 millimeters of rain falls annually.
• This, along with the constant temperature hanging around 75-85 degrees Farenheit, makes the rainforest an extremely humid place.
• Tropical rain forests receive almost 12 hours of sunlight every day.

FUN FACTS

• A lot of the oxygen supply that we have throughout the world is supplied by the tropical rainforests, even though they are miles and miles away. This may come as a shock to some people.
• Many plants in the tropical rainforest are used to fight cancer.
• Around 80% of the food we eat originally came from rainforests. Some of the more popular examples include coffee, chocolate, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, black pepper, pineapples and corn.
• Rainforest land is not really any good for farming. Once cleared, the soil is of such low quality that it can hardly be used to grow anything.
• If deforestation continues, we’ll completely lose the rainforests within the next 40 years.

Thank you Wikipedia.