Tropical rainforest animals

Tropical forests have appeared more than 100 million years ago in the area located along the equator. It is always warm and humid there. In fine, it is the best place on earth to live and propagate. These forests occupy only 6% of Earth's land area, but 80% of all known species of plants and almost half of all terrestrial animal species may be found there. The density of forest population is very large. All spaces are occupied – from the tops of the trees to the forest floor. Trees and vines form a forest frame. Epiphytes, ferns and other plants settle right on the bark of trees and vines. This is the place where you can observe the real biodiversity. These forests are called the “jewel of the Earth”, the “lungs of the Earth”, and the “pharmacy of the world”. Can you imagine that many animals and plants have not been studied yet? Let's take a walk through the jungle, not in a usual way, but from top to bottom.

Many animals live in the crowns. They are happy there and never descend to the ground. Such tree lifestyle is typical for birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, spiders, mammals. All their lives in the trees... Aren’t they curious? Well, you would certainly come down. Man wants to know everything. Evolving for millions of years, tree animals have learned the truth: it is better to stay on branches. More food and a lot of hiding places. Tree branches are thickly interwoven, so some birds do not fly as much as hop from branch to branch. Of course, it is crowded there, but there are a lot of advantages.

Find the birds of paradise – blue, king, small, and king of Saxony's. The reigning beauty! But they are the closest relatives of our ordinary crows. Why nature has deprived the feathered inhabitants of our ranges of bright colors? They can already see each other very well in the vastness of midland. But what they don’t need is the attention of their enemies. Again, we see that everything in the world is reasonable. These colorful parrots can do anything: they climb and fly perfectly fine. Look at this miracle of nature with three long wattles dangling from the base of its beak. Its name is three-wattled bellbird. It climbs on top of the tree and produces the loudest sounds that birds are only able to.

 It is clear how birds settle on the trees.

But what other inhabitants of trees do?

They can be divided into two groups: gliding and climbing.

 Sugar glider may be an example of the gliding animal. Find the animal in the showcase with large membranes between its front and hind legs that is similar to the forest squirrel.

Tree frogs also have webbings between the fingers that help them to glide during the jumps.

And now let's talk about those who climb trees and can jump from branch to branch quite well. The tree kangaroo is able to jump from tree to tree at a distance of up to 9 m.

Here is a perfect creation of nature – green iguana, a tree lizard. It can do anything: climbing, swimming, pressing legs to the body and working its tail as a fin, and fighting, using its long tail as a whip. And that's not all.

It has a third eye called the parietal. It feels the change of lighting, detects the movement, helping to move away from the enemy. And it feeds on plant food, well, except that at a young age it may get a bite of worm.

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