2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Some locations of a rainforest include:
Africa, Central Africa, Central America
and Southern America, Peru, Amazon,
Sothern Asia, Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia
and Australia.
7. 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?
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Pygmy Their fur is
Marmosets are tawny in colours
one of the Did you and they have a
smallest know that ringed tail that
primates in the the Pygmy is at least the
rainforest, in Marmoset length of its
fact the smallest can jump body. Most of
monkey in the as far as their lives are
world! They 16 feet? spent up in the
have a body They are trees and rarely
length between only the are on the
12 and 15 cm. A size of a ground. Their
height between fool grown colouring
17 and 23 cm. human provides them
they weigh finger! to camouflage.
between 100 This monkey has
and 125g. a specialized
diet of gum.
11. 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!
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
