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providing good balance.
Bats, flying foxes (a species of bat), and tree frogs occur here, along with climbing species such as sun bears, tarsiers, orang-utans, and other primates.
Mammals, which roam the rainforest floor, include large cats, such as tigers, panthers and jaguars, tapirs, anteaters, boars & hogs, gorillas and many species of rodents. Bird and reptile species occur in each of the forest layers.

Many species have effective camouflage and tactile behaviours and bright colours, distinctive calls, and predator-mimicking patterns are all common tactics.
The invertebrates, which do not have a backbone or vertebrae, which outnumber all other animals, are an important part of the decomposing.
food chain, breaking down dead vegetation and other dead creatures.
A major factor that has shaped the evolution of plants and animals in the Rainforest has been the movement of the continents over time.
About 200 million to 300 million years ago, today's continents were joined in one giant super continent known as Pangaea.
However, the landmass broke up around 180 million years ago during the Jurassic period and the continents drifted apart.
The development of different species in each continent was different, which is why we have so many different creatures & plants and so many different breeds of them alive today, which have all evolved individually.
Many areas of rainforest have, until recently, been inaccessible due to unknown dangers and its complex ecosystem.
This has meant that they are the least understood ecosystems in the world.
It is thought that the forests may contain about 70 per cent of all the plants on Earth, together with 80 per cent of primate species, 60 per cent of bird species, and 98 per cent of all insects.
It is estimated that there could be up to 2000 different species per square kilometre in the rainforest.
If attempts and projects to preserve what's left of the rainforest are kept up, and people stop wasting so much paper and natural resources, then creatures and plants, which are now on the verge of ecstinction due to their habitats being destroyed, could once again thrive! After all, it was their home first!

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