RAINFORESTS Who Lives There? Produced and presented by: Mrs. Thomas’ and Mr. Napier’s Grade 4 Wizards 1

Spider Monkey Habitat : In the canopy of the Amazon rainforest. Food:Ripe fruit and leaves. Spider Monkeys have a rubbery tips to their tail to help when swinging through the trees. They also have very long arms and legs for swinging through the trees. Their body grows to 60cm long and their tail to 90cm long. Rachel

Colugos Habitat : Tropical rainforest Food: Leaves and fruit Special Characteristics: They have very sharp claws to help them climb trees. The Colugos have short brown/grey fur and their body is 42cm long and their tail is 12 cm long. Information collected by: Danielle

FLYING FOX (Black) or PTEROPUS ALECTO Habitat : Caves, and trees in Tropical rainforests. Food :Fruit, nectar , leaves and pollen. Special Characteristics: Small, sausage shaped, black body, fox like head, black bat wings. Their wing span is nearly 2 metres. It is one of the larges bats. Their wings are made of flexible skin stretched over its elongated fingers. It only weighs 1 kg. Information : Zacc

CASSOWARY On the forest floor in the southern part of Cape York. Snails, insects, fruit, seeds and fungi. The Cassowary has a big, helmet-like bone on the top of its head. They are black in colour with a purple-blue face and reddish-orange ‘wattle’ hanging from its neck. It lays pea-green eggs and only six of them at a time. They build a mound and lay their eggs into it. The male sits on them and they take 50 days to incubate. The male continues to look after the chicks for 9 months. The male Cassowary grows to 1.6 metres high and the female is slightly bigger. By: Sally, Rebecca & Jemma

BOWER BIRD On the forest floor in Australia and New Guinea Insects, seeds, berries and fruit and also require water. The male Bird collects leaves and sticks for their nest which is called a Bower. The male decorates it with flowers, shells and sometimes even glass. The male Bower Bird is blue and black in colour and the female is yellow. They both have blue eyes. They grow to approximately 27-33cm. There are 19 different species in the Bower Bird family. By: Kyle, Roxanne, Kylah

TREE KANGAROO In the tropical forests of New Guinea and north eastern Australia often in mountainous terrain. Eats Leaves and fruit. It grown to a length of 52-80cm with a tail nearly one metre long. It feeds at night. The Tree Kangaroo is very different from other kangaroos. It prefers to walk rather than hop. They can leap up to 9 metres from one branch to the next. By: Joel

SPOTTED CUSCUS Rainforest of Cape York. Eats Leaves and fruits of the forest. The Cuscus is spotted black and brown in patches all over.It has a tail which is about a metre long which it curls up when scared. They also have long claws, up 60cm. The Spotted Cuscus carries its baby in a pouch for 3 or 4 months. By: Lisa

PLATYPUS In the Tropical and Sub-tropic of Australia in fresh waters of rivers and streams. It lives part of the time on land and part of the time in the water. The Platypus eats worms, insect larvae, molluscs, crustaceans and vegetation which it crushes with its horny plates in the bill (mouth). The male has a poisonous spur on their hind legs which can kill small animals and inflict painful wounds on larger ones. The young suckle milk from the mother for about 5 months. The Platypus grows to about 61 cm long and weighs approximately 1.8 kg. They have a coat of dark brown to yellow fur, with webbed feet and a flat rubbery bill. The female digs a burrow in river banks and lays her eggs which hatch in 8-10 days. By: Leith

FLYING DRAGON Lives In South East Asia in treetop canopies and eats flies, insects and grasshoppers. Flying Dragons are like a lizard. They have a flap of skin from their front and hind legs which acts like a wing when they fly from tree to tree. Mitchell

GREEN TREE FROGS In a dark, damp swamp. Flies, and insects. The Green Tree Frog can grow quite big and is a plain green colour. They are quite harmless. By Abby

INDIAN ROCK PYTHON Pythons live in many different areas, from the desert to rainforests. Indian Rock Pythons live in rocky mountain gorges in the rainforest areas. They feed on warm-blooded animals like rock wallabies, scrub wallabies and scrub turkeys. Indian Rock Pythons grow to about four metres long. They are very strong and have broad or wide heads and thick bodies compared to other kinds of snakes. Indian Rock Pythons, like most other snakes, are deaf and mute. They are nocturnal. This means they sleep during the day and are awake all night. Female Pythons lay between 15 - 100 eggs. The mother curls her body around the eggs until they hatch which is called brooding. By: Sarah