Kinkajous are mammals native to the rainforests of South and Central America. These animals are arboreal, which means they live and forage in trees. This may be the perfect place for them to live, because kinkajous love to eat fruit! … Kinkajou reaching for fruit from a bird feeder. HowRead More →
A Rainforest can be described as a tall, dense jungle. … The climate of a rain forest is very hot and humid so the animals and plants that exist there must learn to adapt to this climate. Rainforests basically have four layers to them. As many as 30 million speciesRead More →
They found fossil fragments of 13 trees and discovered fossils of trees that are over 260 million years old, meaning that this particular forest was growing at the end of the Permian Period, before the first dinosaurs. At that time, Antarctica was still at the South Pole. How was AntarcticaRead More →
Deforestation in Borneo has taken place on an industrial scale since the 1960s. Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered by dense tropical and subtropical rainforests. … Much of the forest clearance is illegal. Why is the Borneo forest beingRead More →
The eyes are large, even larger than those of nightjars. As in many species of nocturnal birds, they reflect the light of flashlights. Their eyes, which could be conspicuous to potential predators during the day, have unusual slits in the lids, which allow potoos to sense movement even when theirRead More →
The Rainforest Parrot is found in the tree top layer of the forests where it flaps around leading an interesting life. Where is macaw located? Macaws are native to Central America and North America (only Mexico), South America, and formerly the Caribbean. Most species are associated with forests, especially rainforests,Read More →