Some Less-Known Animals of Rainforests

[natalie]

The hot & humid climatic conditions of typical rainforests encourage a wide variety of flora & fauna. Also inhabiting these rainforests are some less-known species of animals like:

[B]Two-Toed Sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni)[/B] – Found in the forested regions of Brazil & Northern South America, these are tree dwelling slow-moving animals.


[B]Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)[/B] – Found in the dense forests of Africa, these are the largest of all living primates.


[B]Giant Anteater or Antbear[/B] – Found in the tropical forests of Central & South America, these can be as much as seven feet in length.

[B]
Lesser Malay Chevrotain (Tragus javanicus)[/B] – Also known as mouse deer, this is one of the smallest hoofed animals.


[B]Siamang Gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus)[/B] – The largest of the seven kinds of gibbons, these are found in the forests of Malaya & Sumatra.


[B]Malayan Pangolin (Manis javanica)[/B] – Found in tropical Africa, south & south-east Asia, these scaly anteaters have a rarely known ancestral history.

[GreenTiger]

South America -
insects (morpho butterfly, Julia butterfly, Monarch butterfly, and millions of other insects)
mammals (jaguar, ocelot, didelphid opossums, sloth, howler monkey, spider monkey, capybara, many bats, marmosets, procyonids, peccaries)
birds (quetzal, macaw, tinamous, curassows, hoatzins, hummingbirds, eagles, ovenbirds, antbirds, flycatchers, puffbirds, toucans, jacamars, tanagers, tapirs, troupials, honeycreepers, cardinal grosbeaks, xenops)
reptiles (anaconda, caiman, iguanas, lizards, microteiid lizards, boas, and coral snakes), amphibians (poison arrow frog, etc.)
fish (electric eel, piranha), and millions of other animals.
Australia -
mammals (tree kangaroo, rat kangaroo, yellow-footed Antechinus, Giant White-tailed Uromys, opossums, bandicoot, echidna, duck-billed platypus, sugar glider, red legged pademelon)
birds (cassowary, brolga, emerald dove, orange-footed scrubfowl, Australian brush-turkey, sarus crane, gray goshawk, wompoo fruit dove, topknot pigeon, Australian king parrot, laughing kookaburra, lesser sooty owl, fernwren, barred cuckoo-shrike, golden whistler, etc.)
reptiles (frilled lizard, carpet python, Green Tree Snake, Spotted Tree Monitor, Eastern Water Dragon, Boyd's Forest Dragon, Northern Leaf Tailed Gecko)
insects (Ulysses butterfly, Zodiac Moth, Union Jack butterfly, Regent skipper, Birdwing Butterfly)
amphibians (Giant Tree frog, Striped marsh frog, Northern Barred frog, Dainty Green Tree frog), and millions of other animals.
Southeast Asia -
mammals (tarsiers, orangutans, Siamangs, gibbons, colobine monkeys, tigers, tree shrews, binturong, moonrats, most flying foxes, colugos, bamboo rats, Oriental dormice)
birds (tree swifts, leafbirds, fairy bluebirds, fantails, whistlers, flowerpeckers, wood swallows)
insects (Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, Goliath Birdwing butterfly, Saturn Butterfly), and millions of other animals.
West Africa -
mammals (antelopes, bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla, Mandrill, scaly-tailed squirrels, otter shrews, duikers, okapi, hippopotamus, Cercopithecus monkeys, bushbabies, pygmy hippo, duiker)
birds (Congo peafowl, African Gray Parrot) and millions of other animals.

[MsWhiskers]

No pictures ? I was hoping to see animals of the rainforest in all their glory

[slucas]

Sloths Rock! (slowly)

[gthurnball]

Here's a cute sloth video:

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndMKTnSRsKM]YouTube - Attenborough: Saying Boo to a Sloth! - BBC Earth[/url]

[tysookal]

That video is really funny.

[Greenybee11]

Sloths are so cute. I heard that since they move so slow that they actually grow moss on them! I don't know if it's actually true though.

[paulp428]

I love Sloths!