Amazon rainforest is located in South America, covering an area of 5.5 million square kilometers, spanning 9 countries, accounting for one-fifth of the global forest area. Lung of the earth? , again? World animal and plant kingdom? Known as. Most of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil, where there is abundant rainfall, lush plants and tall trees cover the sky. From the air, the rainforest is lush and green, but being in the rainforest is completely different. Because the tall trees block the sun, they look dark.
Amazon rainforest animal kingdom
There are many rare animals living in the Amazon rainforest, such as jaguar, caiman, anteater, manatee, tapir, capybara, macaw and bald monkey. They live in the endless primitive tropical rain forest, go deep into the Amazon rain forest and appreciate the unique charm of the rain forest ecology.
Amazon rainforest plant kingdom
Most of this area is covered with plants, which has been estimated by ecologists. By analyzing millions of trees in 1 170 sample plots, ecologists estimate that there are nearly 40 billion trees in the Amazon rainforest. Besides trees, there are all kinds of other plants. Some botanists believe that there are no fewer than 50,000 species of plants in the Amazon rainforest. So far, only half of them have been scientifically identified.
Trees in the rain forest are usually tall and straight, which can get more sunlight and are beneficial to growth, while the plants under their branches and leaves are intricate and cover the ground. There are all kinds of strange lianas in the rainforest. Their shapes are variable. Some of them are intertwined, and some of them seem to be available at any time? Live broadcast? It's creepy to come over, and my heart is cold, as if I were in a fantasy kingdom in a movie.
It's not good to look at green, and colorful epiphytes of rainforest have appeared. In the Amazon rainforest, epiphytes grow on branches and leaves. As the name implies, epiphytes grow by attachment. They don't absorb nutrients from trees, but they can survive through photosynthesis, using rainwater, water vapor in the air and a small amount of humus. Epiphytes are attached to tall trees because they can get sunlight for photosynthesis, which is essentially different from parasitic plants. In the Amazon rainforest, the most common epiphytes are bromeliaceae, Araceae and Orchidaceae. Their flowers compete with each other, just like a scene of a hanging garden.
If you are in the Amazon rainforest, you will be fascinated by it, but the more beautiful it is, the more dangerous it is.
The unique hot and humid environment of the tropical rain forest is a paradise for snakes, among which there are many giant snakes, such as the Amazon python, which is called the heaviest snake in the world, with the heaviest weight of 225 kilograms and the longest body length of 10 meter. Generally, boa constrictors are only about five meters long. However, in front of human beings, they still exist like giants, Amazon boa constrictors.
There are all kinds of poisonous snakes lurking on the land.
The giant salamander is a large poisonous snake in the Amazon rainforest. It likes to lurk in wet bushes. If you are bitten, it is very dangerous.
In addition, there are dozens and hundreds of poisonous snakes, stingers, butterflies and so on, which can be said to be dangerous everywhere.
There are not only poisonous snakes on land, but also poisonous spiders, poison dart frogs, all kinds of poisonous insects, poisonous scorpions and so on. Even some ants are highly toxic, such as bullet ants. Don't underestimate this bullet ant, it was once rated as? Top ten most poisonous animals in the world? It is also one of the largest ant species in the world.
In fact, it is not surprising that there are these poisonous insects in the hot and humid environment of the rainforest. Just feeling that there are these poisons in this beautiful rainforest makes people gasp and shudder.
Therefore, before exploring the Amazon rainforest, you should prepare an adventure guide, because once you set foot on this land, thousands of poisons in the rainforest may be a threat.