Rainforest Lizards
Lizards are regarded as the most successful reptiles. They are very diverse, and so diverse that it’s often hard to box-in and categories all lizards into the group, as they…
Amazon Rainforest Products
Products linked to the Amazon Rainforest include a range of familiar things we use today. For example, confectionary or personal care products involving cocoa or Brazil nuts can be traced…
Amazon Rainforest Diversity
The photo above is from the Refugio Amazonas Lodge, Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Home to the highest concentration of life on Earth, the Amazon Rainforest covers around 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000…
Rainforest Flowers
It’s the flowering plants (Angiosperms) that dominate rainforest habitats. Evolving to attract pollinators to their nectaries, flower petals act as beacons and landing pads to accommodate flies, bees, birds, bats…
Rainforest Carnivores
Carnivores feed off other animals in the rainforests and usually prey on herbivores. The most specialized carnivores are the cats with their retractable claws and acute senses. Carnivores don’t simply…
Rainforest Insects
There could be around 10 million insect species on Earth and a great many live in the world’s tropical forests. The most abundant insects in the rainforests are ants, but…
Rainforest Mammals
All rainforest mammals feed their young with milk from mammary glands and this is why their (and our) class is named mammalia, the mammals. Mammals are also the only group…