Tropical Rainforest
Where can I find a tropical Rainforest?
What types of animals live in the rainforest?
What are some interesting facts? Tropical Rainforests are typically found in what is called the equatorial zone.
More specifically they are located in Middle America, the Amazon, Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia.
The rainforest has a vast variety of plants and animals so I will only be giving a few examples.
Some of the animals currently inhabiting rainforests are the poison arrow frog, jaguars, anacondas, alligators, toucan, tigers, gorillas and many, many more
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- Trees are so densely packed, that rain falling in the canopy can take up to 10 minutes to reach the ground.
- 1 out 4 ingredients in our medicines are rainforest plants
- About 2,000 trees are destroyed per minute.
