Transcript Hot lips flower

The Rainforest
Introduction
• The rainforest is home to over half of the world’s species
of animals and plants, but yet it only covers less than
3% of this world. The temperature rarely gets higher
than 34° and rarely lower than -20°. Did you know
that one quarter of our medicine comes from the
rainforest’s plants! The rainforest consists of four
layers. From top to bottom they are: Emergent layer,
Canopy, Understory and Forest Floor. This habitat is
disappearing fast as 6,000 metres is destroyed every
second!
Colobine Monkey
Colobines are mostly herbivores but
occasionally eat insects. Colobine monkeys are
estimated to have a life expectancy of 20
years! Their tail can grow longer than it
body which is only 50-70cm. These rare
species of animals are listed as one of the 25
most endangered species of animals in the
rainforest. Colobine monkeys never stay on
their own so they are always in groups. They
mostly stay at the tree tops, but occasionally
come to the forest floor.
Tree Kangaroo
Over the years tree kangaroos have
adapted to life in trees. There are
significant variations in their colour
and size. Destruction of trees
means a loss of habitat and food
for the tree kangaroo. Only
weighing 30 pounds these creatures
are one of the beautiful animals of
the rainforest.
Vietnamese mossy frog
This frog is adapted very well to
it’s habitat. It uses it’s skin to
camouflage between leaves and on
grass. When Vietnamese mossy
frogs are frightened they curl into a
ball and play dead. To swallow
food they pull their eyes down into
the roof of it’s mouth which helps
them to swallow.
Hot lips flower
• Hot lips live in the dark
forest floor in a shrub.
They are very common in
most rainforests. These
miscellaneous flowers
attract the humming bird.
They contains a large
amount of pollen.
Rafflesia plant
This large flower is almost a metre
wide and weighs 6 pounds. This
flower is rootless, stemless and
leafless. This plant has a
horrible smell, and because of it’s
size makes it even worse. This
odour attracts beetles and flies
into the plant to pollinate it. The
rafflesia plants is one of the
largest plants in the rainforest.
Bridal-veil Stinkhorn Fungus
Stinkhorn fungi has a very
rotten smell. The white net
around it is the source of this
odour. They mostly grow during
the Summer and Autumn and
once grown only last a few days.
In New York they sell dried
Stinkhorns which sound very
revolting! The Bridal-veil
stinkhorn fungi is sometimes
used for medicine.
The pygmies are an African tribe that live in the
rainforest. The pygmy people are very short and an
average man only grows up to 150cm tall! The
reason for their shortness is lack of calcium. They
mostly feed on fruit and berries from trees. The
population of the pygmy tribe in the rainforest is
estimated to be just under half a million!
Pygmies traditional huts
Dressed in special occasion gear
Conclusion
I have really enjoyed working on this project and
I hope you enjoyed it to. It has been a great
experience learning all the different facts about
this habitat. At the start of this project I had a
lot of questions about the rainforest but with a bit
of research I soon found the answers! Thanks for
listening!