Transcript Austin and Jakar

The Rainforest
By Austin Hurd
and Jakar Oriseh
What is a rain forest?
There are 4 layers in
the rainforests such as
the forest floor,
understory, canopy, and
emergent layer. Half of
the animals come from
the rainforest.25% of
our medicine comes
from the rainforest.
Location of Rain Forests
There are many
locations for
rainforests. The
biggest rainforest
is the Amazon
rainforest. The
Amazon can be
found in South
America. The
second biggest
rainforest is on
the west coast of
Africa.
There are many birds in
the hunting variety of
animals.
The Harpy eagle is armed
with powerful feet, huge talons,
and a strong beak. It swoops
through the treetops, very fast.
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Canopy Layer
There are many
animals in the
Canopy layer. Here
are some of the
animals in the
canopy layer threetoed sloth, green
iguanssa, bees,
spider monkey,
keel-billed toucan,
and a jaguar.
Understory Layer
There are interesting
animals and plants
in the under story
layer. The animals
are the spider,
Emerald tree boa,
and the Red-eyed
tree frog. The plants
are the Rosy
Periwinkle, and the
Bromeliad.
Forest Floor
Lots of animals can be found
on the forest floor. Here is an
animal from the forest floor, a
Milk snake. A Milk snake has
gray or tan skin and reddish
blotches.
Deforestation
Deforestation is a
conversion of
forested areas.
Deforestation can
be the result of the
deliberate
removal. One
deforestation is
cutting down
trees.
Deforestation is a
bad thing to do.
People of the Rain Forest
The rainforest is also
a place where
people live. The
rainforest dwellers
of Central and South
America, Asia, and
Africa have very
different looks.
Ring-tailed Lemur
Meet the leaping lemurs. Lemurs don’t swing through
the trees like monkeys, they leap. Mother lemurs
leap even they are carrying their babies. Lemurs
didn’t invent piggyback rides , but the babies sure like
them.
Marmoset
Pygmy marmosets are the smallest monkeys
in the world. Their babies are almost always
twins. The tiny mother, only four inches
long,is not strong enough to carry both babies
as she jumps around in the rainforests trees.
Mandrill
Mandrills eat fruits, leaves, roots, seeds, insects, eggs,
small animals. They can weigh up to 120 pounds.
Females are half of the males weight. The males
height is 28-30 inches. The females are half that
height. Their life span can be up to 46 years.
Bengal Tiger
This cute little tiger cub will grow up to be a hundred
times bigger than the kitty in your house. It will do a
lot of the same things a house cat would do, except
purr. The tiger is one of the ‘’four who can roar.’’
Three of the roaring cats are tigers,leopards,and
jaguars. Lions,the fourth roarer, sometimes lives in
forests, but never in rainforests.
Sloth
The baby sloth likes to take naps, tip-top naps. In the
tallest branches of the rainforest it sleeps away most
of the day and all of the night. A snoozing sloth won’t
fall even when the wind blows. Their long claws wrap
around the branches.
Macaw
Mother and father
macaw have the
most beautiful
feathers in the
rainforest. But
their chicks are
naked. Only for a
few days,though.
Then fluffy”baby
feathers’’ called
down cover their
wrinkly skin.
Monkey
When baby monkeys are born ,they
are strong enough to hold onto their
mother’s fur. It is not safe for infants
to be left alone. Big cats,eagles,wild
dogs, snakes,lizards,or other meat
eating animals will eat it.
Sumatran Elephant
The biggest animal in the rainforest is the Sumatran
elephant. And the biggest baby is the elephant calf.
Three hundred pounds at birth, it will become a
thousand-pound baby in less than two years. That
elephant milk is powerful stuff!
Conclusion
Save the rainforest!