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The Tropical Rainforest
Plants
- They have different shapes and sizes.
- They are easily adaptable to nature and they can be easily found around the world.
- The largest family of flowers in the rainforests.
- The cocoa plant is the superfood, can be
found among the tropical rainforest.
- They are loaded with several health
benefits such as reducing high blood pressure.
- Rubber trees are important economic plants.
- The rubber sap produced by the rubber tree,
is used in industry such as tires.
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- They grow up to 3 meters in distance across.
- Food and nesting hummingbirds are found around the plant.
- The most beautiful plants in the Amazon rainforest.
- They arrange well in tropical atmospheres,
inclines toward the sun and notwithstanding.
- The energy organic product blossom dislikes substantial warmth.
- They can stick on to nearly anything and grow 15 to 20 ft.
Animals
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- The Sumatran rhinoceros are found the tropical forests of Borneo and Sumatra.
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- The Okapi is a unique mammalian species that is native to tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa.
- The tapir is herbivorous mammal. It is found in forests of South and Central America as well as Southeastern Asia.
Interesting facts
- Tropical rainforests cover less than 3% of Earth's area but they are home to more than half our planet's terrestrial animal species.
- Tropical rainforests play an essential role in maintaining the Earth’s limited supply of freshwater and drinking water.
- The one-fifth of the world’s freshwater is found here.
- The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. It is so big that if it were a country, it would be the ninth biggest in the world.
- The world's largest oxygen source
- Trees in tropical rainforests are so dense that it takes approximately 10 minutes for the rainfall to reach the ground from the canopy.
- Tropical forests are no longer carbon sinks, they have become net carbon emitters.
- There are over 2,500 different vine species in the tropical rainforest.
- Tropical rainforests are one of the oldest biomes on Earth.
- 70% or more of the plants that are used to treat cancer are found only in the tropical rainforests.
Climate
- Tropical rainforests can be characterized : hot and wet. Mean monthly temperatures exceed 18 °C during all months of the year.
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