Interesting Facts On Rainforests
- An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each second.
- Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day.
- The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground.
- In the moist rainforests of South America, sloths move so slowly that algae are able to grow in their fur.
- Some rainforest monkeys are omnivores, eating both animals and plants.
- More than 2,000 different species of butterflies are found in the rainforests of South America.
- The forests of Central Africa are home to more than 8,000 different species of plants.
- Flying animals of Asian rainforests include frogs, squirrels and snakes.
- 80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.
- Bats are essential for the pollination of many tropical foodstuffs such as bananas and mangoes.
- 1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.
- About 2,000 trees per minute are cut down in the rainforests. Let's do everything we can to save them..
Source: srl.caltech.edu
2 comments:
great facts!
SAVE THE PLANET!!
That sure is interesting! Thanks for sharing...
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