The Rainforest By Austin Hurd and Jakar Oriseh

What is a rain forest? There are 4 layers in the rainforests such as the forest floor, understory, canopy, and emergent layer. Half of the animals come from the rainforest.25% of our medicine comes from the rainforest.

Location of Rain Forests There are many locations for rainforests. The biggest rainforest is the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon can be found in South America. The second biggest rainforest is on the west coast of Africa.

The Harpy eagle is armed with powerful feet, huge talons, and a strong beak. It swoops through the treetops, very fast. There are many birds in the hunting variety of animals. Emergent LayerEmergent Layer

Canopy Layer There are many animals in the Canopy layer. Here are some of the animals in the canopy layer three- toed sloth, green iguanssa, bees, spider monkey, keel-billed toucan, and a jaguar.

Understory Layer There are interesting animals and plants in the under story layer. The animals are the spider, Emerald tree boa, and the Red-eyed tree frog. The plants are the Rosy Periwinkle, and the Bromeliad.

Forest Floor Lots of animals can be found on the forest floor. Here is an animal from the forest floor, a Milk snake. A Milk snake has gray or tan skin and reddish blotches.

Deforestation Deforestation is a conversion of forested areas. Deforestation can be the result of the deliberate removal. One deforestation is cutting down trees. Deforestation is a bad thing to do.

People of the Rain Forest The rainforest is also a place where people live. The rainforest dwellers of Central and South America, Asia, and Africa have very different looks.

Ring-tailed Lemur Meet the leaping lemurs. Lemurs don’t swing through the trees like monkeys, they leap. Mother lemurs leap even they are carrying their babies. Lemurs didn’t invent piggyback rides, but the babies sure like them.

Marmoset Pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys in the world. Their babies are almost always twins. The tiny mother, only four inches long,is not strong enough to carry both babies as she jumps around in the rainforests trees.

Mandrill Mandrills eat fruits, leaves, roots, seeds, insects, eggs, small animals. They can weigh up to 120 pounds. Females are half of the males weight. The males height is inches. The females are half that height. Their life span can be up to 46 years.

Bengal Tiger This cute little tiger cub will grow up to be a hundred times bigger than the kitty in your house. It will do a lot of the same things a house cat would do, except purr. The tiger is one of the ‘’four who can roar.’’ Three of the roaring cats are tigers,leopards,and jaguars. Lions,the fourth roarer, sometimes lives in forests, but never in rainforests.

Sloth The baby sloth likes to take naps, tip-top naps. In the tallest branches of the rainforest it sleeps away most of the day and all of the night. A snoozing sloth won’t fall even when the wind blows. Their long claws wrap around the branches.

Macaw Mother and father macaw have the most beautiful feathers in the rainforest. But their chicks are naked. Only for a few days,though. Then fluffy”baby feathers’’ called down cover their wrinkly skin.

Monkey When baby monkeys are born,they are strong enough to hold onto their mother’s fur. It is not safe for infants to be left alone. Big cats,eagles,wild dogs, snakes,lizards,or other meat eating animals will eat it.

Sumatran Elephant The biggest animal in the rainforest is the Sumatran elephant. And the biggest baby is the elephant calf. Three hundred pounds at birth, it will become a thousand-pound baby in less than two years. That elephant milk is powerful stuff!

Conclusion Save the rainforest!