ANIMALS IN TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
Ridiculously huge numbers of animals live in tropical rainforests, including microscopic animals, invertebrates (like insects and worms), fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. A few animals from each tropical rainforest are listed below:
- Australia
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- mammals such as the tree kangaroo, rat kangaroo,
yellow-footed Antechinus, Giant White-tailed Uromys, opossums, bandicoot, echidna, duck-billed platypus, sugar glider, red legged pademelon
- birds like the 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 like the frilled lizard, carpet python,
Green Tree Snake, Spotted Tree Monitor, Eastern Water Dragon, Boyd's Forest
Dragon, Northern Leaf Tailed Gecko
- insects such as the Ulysses butterfly, Zodiac Moth, Union Jack butterfly, Regent
skipper, Birdwing Butterfly
- amphibians like the Giant Tree frog, Striped
marsh frog, Northern Barred frog, Dainty Green Tree frog, and millions of other
animals.
- Southeast
Asia -
- mammals like the tarsiers, orangutans, Siamangs,
gibbons,
colobine monkeys, tigers, tree shrews, binturong, moonrats, most flying foxes, colugos, bamboo rats,
Oriental dormice
- birds like the tree swifts, leafbirds, fairy
bluebirds, fantails, whistlers, flowerpeckers, wood swallows
- insects. For example Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, Goliath Birdwing
butterfly, Saturn Butterfly, and millions of other animals.
- West
Africa -
- mammals like the antelopes, bonobo,
chimpanzee, gorilla, Mandrill, scaly-tailed squirrels, otter shrews,
duikers, okapi, hippopotamus, Cercopithecus monkeys, bushbabies, pygmy hippo,
duiker
- birds such as the Congo peafowl, African Gray Parrot and millions of other animals.