The rainforests are dense forests that are located in areas that receive the highest rainfalls throughout the year. The rainforests are also home to more than 50% of the animals and plants available in our world. Because of the dense foliage, sunlight often does not penetrate to the ground level, leaving the forest floors pretty clear and walk able.

The rainforests developed on earth mainly due to what scientists call the monsoon trough, a weather pattern of winds converging to form a heavy rain band over certain locations. The rainforests can get up to 78mm of rain in the rainy season.

But of course not all rainforests animals can be easily spotted. Take for instance the rainforest chameleon. It can blend with any color in the rain forest making it almost impossible to spot. And then you have the red eyed tree frog, which looks like a devil in a green suit. All you can see of it through the leaves is the red eye.

Apart from these, there are millions of rainforest animals that are undocumented by scientists because they live too deep or too high in the forests to be seen or documented. Moreover, there is a certain stratospheric arrangement among the rainforest animals. For instance birds live almost over the dense foliage, making their nests on top of the tallest trees. Below them we can find the monkeys and orangutans and even snakes. Insects are pretty much found in all heights, but the bigger animals like tigers and reptiles like crocodiles mostly live on forest floor. Of course, there could be an occasional jaguar or an anaconda curled up high above the ground, waiting to pounce of their prey.

Take for instance a jaguar. Lithe, streamlined and able to use the dense forest to its advantage it’s an incredible predator in the rainforest. Until of course it accidentally meets an Anaconda or a Boa Constrictor, each capable of crushing this mighty predator like match sticks.

Rainforest animals also play the most important role of spreading seeds and pollens all throughout the forest to help maintain its ecosystem. Rats, insects, butterflies or birds, each contribute to this process. And the food chain is quite complicated due to variety of species among rainforest animals.

Below the canopy, up to where the sunlight reaches, is the understory layer. It’s a world of shrubs and smaller tree with bigger leaves which make for the perfect hunting ground of predators like the big cats and snakes.

And the lowest layer is of course the floor of the rainforests. This is another world in itself, full of swaps crawling with snakes and crocodiles, exotic colorful plants, carnivorous plants, fungi, rats and other small animals. And do not forget the rainforests are also home to more than hundreds of tribes that have no connection to the outside world.

With only two seasons to boast - wet and dry - the rainforests are evergreen and do not wither away naturally without human disturbance or change in weather, both of which are becoming more and more rampant in recent years. Excessive deforestation has caused the rainforests to dwindle from occupying 15% of the earth to 7% at the present. Along with the rainforests, we are losing hundreds of plants with medicinal properties, animal and insects that play a major part in earth’s ecological balance. With the threat of global warming looming ahead, the fate of the world’s rainforests is now doubtful.

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