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Jungle Animals

The bee hummingbird of South America is the world's smallest bird. It ...

You might think that the answer would be a jaguar, or an alligator. ...

The Hercules atlas moth, from Australia and Papua New Guinea, has a ...

The vervain hummingbird of South America builds a nest from plants ...

The laziest animal in the rainforest has to be the three-toed sloth, ...

The world's biggest rodent is the capybara, from South America. ...

Including its eight hairy legs, a bird-eating spider, or tarantula, ...

A cuscus is a marsupial from Papua New Guinea. It has a pouch on its ...

The yapok is a marsupial from Central and South America that is ...

So much of their forest home has been cleared to make space for ...

The shyest animal in the rainforest is probably the okapi. These ...

Diopsid flies live in many rainforests. They have eyes on the end of ...

The matamata turtle uses its long neck as a snorkel to hold its ...

The bizarre giraffe-necked weevil, from Madagascar, is one of the ...

Antbirds follow armies of ants, as they swarm through the South ...

Male cock-of-the-rocks are brilliant orange and black birds. To ...

Quetzals are glittering green and crimson birds from Central America. ...

Like hummingbirds, sunbirds from Asia and Africa feed on nectar from ...

The male argus pheasant of Asia has the longest feathers of any ...

The spectacular hyacinth macaw of South America is one of the rarest ...

The honeyguide is a small bird that lives in Africa and Asia. Like ...

Dung-roller beetles in Madagascar collect up the droppings of sifaka ...

Fungus gnats are tiny insects from Australia. Their worm-like larvae ...

Stick insects live in rainforests all over the world. They are long ...

Leeches live in rainforests all over the world. They gorge themselves ...

At rest, many rainforest grasshoppers are well camouflaged among the ...

Some are! Tailor ants make their nests from living leaves, still ...

The tent-caterpillar moth of South America gets its name from the way ...

The dazzling feathers of male birds of paradise give the birds their ...

A female scorpion carries her babies on her back, to keep them safe ...

In many rainforests, female ichneumon wasps lay their eggs in the ...

Bromeliads are rainforest plants related to pineapples. They grow ...

In Africa, a female hornbill lays her eggs in a hole in a tree. Then, ...

Hoatzins live in South America. They build their nests in trees that ...

The basilisk lizard of South America has an amazing ability. It walks ...

Many rainforest frogs live high up in the trees to avoid hungry ...

Sifakas are lemurs from Madagascar. They can't run on all fours ...

Hummingbirds feed on nectar, found deep inside rainforest flowers in ...

Yes, there are flying dragons! These are a type of lizard. They have ...

Gibbons have arms that are longer than their bodies. This helps them ...

Many rainforest snakes are excellent climbers. Their long, muscular ...

For some rainforest animals, pretending to be poisonous is the next ...

Centipedes are fierce hunters, and their first pair of legs is ...

To extract poison from arrow-poison frogs, South American hunters ...

Bombardier beetles have a very unusual and unpleasant way of warning ...

You'd get a painful shock! Stingrays are usually quite harmless, ...

If you're out and about in rainforests all over the world, ...

The fer-de-lance is a deadly poisonous snake that grows up to 8 feet ...

Electric eels live in slow, sluggish streams in the Amazon ...

When it is resting on the forest floor, in South America, the wild ...

The huge rococo toad, from South America, protects itself from hungry ...

Caterpillars make tasty meals for rainforest birds. To scare off ...

Very sharp indeed! Wild boars live in some parts of Asia. They use ...

In the rainforests of Madagascar, big brown cockroaches come out at ...

A pangolin is like a type of anteater covered in hard, sharp scales ...

Toucans are famous for their striking beaks, which can grow longer ...

Chameleons are masters of disguise. Their skin is usually green or ...

The leaf-tailed gecko, of Madagascar, spends the day head-down on a ...

The crab spider! To take their insect prey by surprise, some crab ...

As a Morpho butterfly flies through the rainforest trees of South ...

In the rainforest, things aren't always what they seem. Many animals ...

Katydids are small grasshoppers that disguise themselves brilliantly. ...

The fishing bat, of South America, hunts for its food using sound. It ...

Piranhas are small, snappy fish with a terrible reputation. The ...

The orchid bees, of South America, carry pollen from one gongora ...

The jaguar is king of the South American rainforest. A fierce hunter, ...

The biggest, strongest spider webs are built by golden orb-weaver ...

The aye-aye is a very rare lemur, from Madagascar. It uses its long, ...

Vine snakes hang down head-first from the trees in rainforests all ...

Snakes called boas kill their prey by squeezing. The gray tree boa, ...

It can be difficult to be heard in the noisy rainforests of South ...

Many monkeys have brightly colored skin or hair to signal to others. ...

To attract a mate, the male bellbird of Central and South America ...

Tarsiers are tiny, monkey-like animals from South-east Asia. They ...

When ring-tailed lemurs go for a walk through the forests of ...

Mouse deer live in Asia. They are about the size of hares, with ...

The tapirs of South America and Asia are very shy, secretive animals. ...

Male orangutans of South-east Asia burp loudly to warn other males to ...

From its long, trunk-like nose! These little creatures are about the ...

You might think that a Malayan tapir's black and white stripes would ...

During a downpour, long, colorful flatworms ooze along the forest ...

Slime molds are very strange life-forms that live on the rainforest ...

Cassowaries are huge birds that live in the rainforests of Australia ...

Trapdoor spiders dig a burrow in the forest floor, and cover it with ...

It rains almost every day in the rainforest. Some animals don't mind ...

Giant eagles, such as the monkey-eating eagle of the Philippines and ...

Most kangaroos are adapted for hopping about on the ground. But not ...

In the rainforests of South America, oropendola birds build nests ...

Tree ants, of course! But when the tree ants move out, birds, called ...

Termites are tiny creatures, no bigger than grains of rice. They live ...

Rainforests grow in layers, depending on the height of the trees. At ...

Rainforests were once twice the size they are today, and they are ...

You often hear rainforests called jungles, and the two words mean ...

Because of where they grow, rainforests are hot and wet all year ...

Most rainforest animals, from large, sleepy sloths to tiny insects, ...

The world's biggest rainforest grows in South America, along the ...

Rainforests grow along the Equator in the areas called the tropics, ...

All over the world, conservation groups are working hard to save the ...