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TROPICAL RAIN FOREST A rain forest is home to many animal and may plant s.Almost every rain forest is located near the equator,their climate is very easy to guess because it rains a lot there and sometimes it's dry. The latitude of some rain forest is 23.5 degrees N and 23.5 degrees S.The average temperature is almost between 20-25 degrees. Throughout every year there is about 2000mm making it about 15 feet of rain a year. Soil in the Rain forest is poor nutrient soil and of course acidis.In every square kilometer of the rain forest it has around 1000 different species of trees, { some trees are about 25-23m tall }.Know you learn a little about Tropical Rain forest now you will go to the center of a rain forest to see what kind of animals live there.

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Red Shanked Douc Landur- Their habitat's are in the lowlands.The name ' Costumed Pale' is us as their nickname because the females have similar colors like the males but are missing a white rump patch.The average weight of the males is 7kg. The average weight of the females is 5kg.Their tail is about 56-76cm long. The years the males reach is 5 years, the life span is about 25years. The main predators are humans,also this is a endangered species.

Gabon Viper- This venomous snake is location East/West central Africa.It ea ts small mammals like birds, frogs.It is about 4-6 feet long and weights 15-18 pounds. The Gabon viper has a great camouflage that helps him hide from his predators.

Africa Vine Snake- Is snake is almost as thick as a man's finger.It's color is greenish brown that helps him blend with creepers vines,branches. Now that you have learn about some animals that live in the Tropical Rain forest you will now know how we destroyed their habitats.Humans have

already destroy about half of the worlds original tropical rain forest.But did you know that every minute rain forests are destroyed so that means that it can fill 50 football fields.Now that we are destroyed all the animals habitats they have no place to live.So humans should cut down less and less tress, because think if you were t he animal that lost their habitat. And did you know that there's only 600 mo untain

gorillas left in the world imagine if you were one of those gorillas.

Jam bu-Its a type of plant in n the rain forest that you can eat. The Jam bu tree grows up to 10-20 feet tall,the branches grow all the way to the ground.This type of fruit can grow from 2-10 inches long and 1-6 inches wide, they are pink the petals are yellow,white,pink t

hey bloom 2 times a year {July and September}. Their roots are poisonous.

Stranger Figs-This Strangle Figs tree has over 1000 different species.When the tree leaves are reaching over to the canopy it gives shad so slowly for the ability to grow and survive. They can grow up to about 480 feet in the height.And think if you cut down this tree all the a

nimals will not able to survive without this tree.And there will not be enough to cured cancer.

Poison arrow frog

Their color warns every predators that is poison. They lay their eggs on wet leaves and it guards them until the hatch.

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Fun Fact's about ' TROPICAL RAIN FOREST' the bod om is called the forest floor the next one on top is call under story and finally the next level is call the emergent.

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CREATE BY: HAYLEY WELKER AND CARMELITA GAMEZ