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our website! We hope you enjoy it! The purpose of our website is
to teach about the Tropical Rain Forest.
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Half of the world's rainforest are in Central America. Do you know
why they are called tropical rainforest? Because of the lines north and
south of the equator. They are called tropic of cancer and the
tropic of Capricorn. There are many strange plants and animals in
the rainforest. The Rafflesia, a flower that grows on the forest
floor, produces the biggest flowers in the world. It also has thick, warty petals
and a spiky center. The flowers smell like rotting meat. The giant red orangutans
love to
eat the fruit from this flower. Wild cats are also
excellent tree climbers. They love to chase many animals in
the under story. The bush master is one of the
most feared snakes in South America. Some large areas in the rain
forest can only support about a few hundred people, so not many
tribes live in the rainforest. |
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The tiny rainforest frog has a strong poison under their skin so
other animals don't eat them. Rainforest also produce a lot of
medicines that we use today. There are at least 1500 kinds of fruit and
vegetables growing in all the world's rainforest. In the rainforest
there is an Amazonian tree. It produces sap that is almost like
diesel if you put this sap in your truck it works just like gas.
Each rainforest has giant eagles, and lizards are
found everywhere in the rainforest. They eat plants, insects, and other
small animals. |
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