The weather here is different consistency. Before sunrise in the woods is pretty cool and quiet, cloudless sky. But here the sun rises - and the temperature begins to rise. By midday, the heat comes, and the air is stifling. Two or three hours later, the sky clouds appear, begin to lightning, deafening thunder shaking the air and starts the shower. Water is pouring a steady stream. As if suddenly there was a waterfall, under the weight of water which ruined trees. A more stable - branch. But even before sunset, the rain stops, the sky brightened, the wind subsides. Typically, the duration of rainfall is less than an hour. Soon the forest is immersed in a peaceful sleep. Darkness of the night comes quickly, almost without twilight. Sometimes it seems that this is someone invisible in an instant turn off lights. Humid tropical forest - a multi-tiered, evergreen, and extremely rich in all kinds of plants. Trees top-tier rise to 80-100 meters in height. There are growing and longest of the plant. This rattan or, as they are commonly used to call - Palma vines. They are usually pulled to 300-400 meters. The lower tiers of tropical forest are usually closed canopy of large trees, intertwining the top. Therefore, below dusky, hot and stuffy in the greenhouse. Tree trunks intertwined, and entwined woody and herbaceous vines. They cut into the trunks (the cortex) of the reference tree and eventually kill him. On the trunks and leaves of parasitized and ferns, orchids, lichens. Rainforest plants shed their leaves at different times, sometimes six times a year. Some trees lose their leaves turn with the different branches. Fallen leaves usually turn yellow, and green and lie under your feet. Therefore, in a tropical forest all around you can see the green. In the tropics, there are 600 different kinds of figs. Some of them are considerably larger than usual for mid-latitude oak. Here we grow tree ferns, similar to a palm. But they have no branches. Leaves, like the ordinary fern, collected at the top of a high trunk. Fruits of these palms - date palm, coconut, oil - are used by man. Flowers and fruits of many tropical plants are very large and are formed directly on the trunk. Red flower rafflezii which prides itself on the roots and stems of vines, up to 140 centimeters in diameter! The nature of the flower is that it spreads very unpleasant smell, resembling corpses of dead animals. This attracts flies which pollinate the plant and. There in the bottom tier of tropical forest are several types of bananas, the fruit of some of them are edible. In the wilds of a tropical forest inhabited by different animals. Here you can find the smallest of insects, insect, of which there is not one hundred species. Here we live and the biggest giants - elephants. And among other big animals live in the tropics, rhinos, hippos. And find shelter and housing. Representatives of some groups of animals in tropical forests are very numerous. Remember those of Rudyard Kipling and his "Mowgli". Live here most of all apes, including apes. Of the birds, some parrots in South America there are over 150 species! Amazon parrot more easily and faster than you can teach to talk. Naturally, the parrot does not understand the meaning of spoken words. It's just a way to emulate a combination of sounds. Insects can be seen not only familiar to us, small, but these giants. Such, for example, is a butterfly tizaniya, whose wingspan reaches 30 centimeters. In water-rich tropical forests, lives a great variety of reptiles, their closest relatives were living millions of years ago dinosaurs. That crocodiles, turtles, lizards, snakes. And many amphibians. On the island of Borneo alone to 7 times more than in all of Europe! Reptiles Tropics reach record proportions. Some crocodiles are found ten meters or more. A South American boa anaconda grows in length and nine meters. In the tropics many different ants. The abundance of plant foods in tropical forests attract many herbivores. And behind them, in turn, flock predators. Among them, leopard (panther), jaguars, tigers, various Cunha. Striped or spotted color of many residents, although it seems at first glance, very bright and noticeable, actually helps animals hide in some places crossed by sunlight shadows the lower layers of the rainforest.
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