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Tropical Rain Forest Biome The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches of rain falls each year.
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Tropical Rain Forest Biome The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches of rain falls each year. Rain forests belong to the tropical wet climate group. The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 93 °F or drops below 68 °F. Almost all rain forests are near the equator. Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface, but it is estimated that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests. Tropical rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen.
A tropical rain forest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world. 70% of all of the plants in the rainforest are trees. Almost 25% of all the medicines humans use come from rainforest plants. One anesthetic (deadens the sense of pain) is called curare, which comes from a vine. Some indigenous people use it to hunt with. From them scientists learned about it, and figured out how to help people with it. Another drug used to help cure malaria comes from the quinine tree, also from the tropical rain forests. A plant called the rosy periwinkle is used to treat a specific kind of blood cancer, called lymphocytic leukemia. Many more plants and also animals remain undiscovered, but so much lives in the tropical rainforest, we need to explore it more, and discover what waits for us to find!
Animals of the Rainforest A wide variety of animals exist in the rainforests. Many are camouflaged to look like plants, or most importantly, not themselves. Some others rely on poisons to keep them safe, they advertise themselves with outstanding colors, so predators know not to eat them! And then some animals are disguised as poisonous animals, even thought they aren’t, to fool predators into leaving them alone!
Almost invisible, so they can sneak up on prey, and not be seen by predators! Don’t eat me, I’m filled up with poison! The Poison Dart Frog
A NON POISONOUS Frog of the rainforest. A Cassowary bird of the rainforest. Note the lush foliage that abounds in this zone!
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