What is rainforest

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what is a rainforest
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The level in the rainforest

• EMERGENTS Giant trees that are much higher than
  the average canopy height. It houses many birds
  and insects.
• CANOPY The upper parts of the trees. This leafy
  environment is full of life in a tropical
  rainforest and includes insects, birds,
  reptiles, mammals, and more.
• UNDERSTORY A dark, cool environment under the
  leaves but over the ground.
• FOREST FLOOR Teeming with animal life,
  especially insects. The largest animals in the
  rainforest generally live here.

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Rainforest Dingo

• Other common names for the dingo include Dog,
  Wild Dog and Warrigal.
• The origins of the dingo to Australia are yet
  unknown, but it is thought to have been
  introduced by Aborigines.
• It is typically ginger coloured with white
  points. Some are black with tan points, and very
  rarely, some are completely white.
• It is a member of an equatorial group of
  primitive dogs (New Guinea, south-eastern Asia,
  northern Africa). One main difference between the
  dingo and a domestic dog is that it only breeds
  once a year, whereas a domestic dog breeds twice.
  
• Dingoes and domestic dogs are actually members of
  the same species, so can therefore interbreed. A
  high proportion of hybrids make up wild
  populations in south-eastern Australia, but this
  is less common in central and northern Australia.

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bird
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WHITE-HEADED PIGEON

•          The White-headed Pigeon is endemic to
  rainforests in eastern Australia.
•          It is a close relative of the
  domesticated pigeon and is of similar size and
  shape.
•          In forests this pigeon is difficult to
  observe. By contrast, round towns and farms it
  may form large flocks to feed, especially on
  fallen fruits of the exotic Camphor Laurel.
  Regular sites include Yungaburra, Malanda and
  Atherton.

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ROSE-CROWNED FRUIT-DOVE

• The male crown is a rose colour, while the rest
  of its head and breast are blue with white spots.
  
• Female is a more duller colour, with their crown
  being a more paler rose-pink, with a yellowier
  throat.

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Emu

• Not only is the Emu the largest bird on the
  continent growing to 2m in height, it is one of
  the largest birds in the world. Like the ostrich
  it is flightless, but can cover the ground
  quickly with its long legs and strong feet. It
  can still be seen in the less settled parts of
  the State and feeds mainly on native seeds of
  grasses and shrubs.

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• The Eastern Bluebird, Sialia sialis, is a blue
  songbird that sings a melodic warble. This
  beautiful member of the thrush family lives in
  the eastern half of the USA and in southern
  Canada, ranging from the Atlantic coast to the
  Rocky Mountains. Its numbers have been decreasing
  greatly in the last few decades.

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PEACEFUL DOVE

•  A small, rounded dove with delicate barring and
  a purplish tinge. Also identified by the blue
  ring around the eye.
• Call is a distinctive and familiar "oodle-ooo"
  and a low "grrr.."
• Found in the east, but most common in the
  tropics. Found in woodlands, and is well found in
  tropical cities and towns. Also found in
  south-east Asia.

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• The Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) is a
  common, widespread woodpecker. It is found in
  woodlands, parks, and a variety of biomes
  throughout North America. Anatomy The Downy
  Woodpecker is a small, black and white bird with
  a short bill. The male has a red spot on the back
  of its head. It is about 6 to 6.5 inches (15-16.5
  cm) long.
• Diet The Downy Woodpecker eats insects, seeds,
  grains, and suet .
• Eggs and Nests The Downy Woodpecker's nest is a
  hole in a tree that has been lined with wood
  chips. Females lay 3-6 white eggs in each clutch
  (a set of eggs laid at one time). The eggs hatch
  in just under 2 weeks.

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• Hummingbirds are tiny birds that can fly forwards
  and also hover in mid-air. They are called
  hummingbirds because when they fly, their wings
  often make a humming sound. Their tiny wings beat
  about 55 to 75 times each second! The average
  life span of a hummingbird is 3 years. Many
  hummingbirds migrate to find food during the cold
  winter. Hummingbirds are native to the Americas.
  

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• Anatomy The toucan is about 20 inches (50 cm)
  long. The toucan's enormous bill is up to
  one-third of its length. The bill is brightly
  colored, light-weight, and edged with toothed
  margins. It has four toes on each foot two toes
  face forwards and two face backwards. Males are
  slightly larger than females, but their
  coloration is similar.
• Diet Toucan eat mostly fruit, but also eat bird
  eggs, insects, and tree frogs. Toucans swallow
  fruit whole and then regurgitate the seeds this
  disperses viable (living) seeds in the forest.

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lyerbirds

• Once again we are running our Autumn Birdwatching
  programme, allowing us to explore the
  rainforests, eucalypts and surrounding valleys
  and lagoons of this famous area in mild March
  conditions. Well run several of the same trips
  that take place in our November Bird Week, as
  well as trying a few different places and
  strategies, and the programme is designed to be
  enjoyable for the beginner or the seasoned
  spotter. Dave Stewart will once again take his
  place as our illustrious leader, with Tim
  OReilly lending a hand and coordinating the
  outings.

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• The cuckoo is a bird with a hollow-sounding,
  plaintive call that sounds like coo-coo coo
  coo-coo-coo. Its name was taken from the sound of
  its call. There are about 142 species of
  cuckoo. These birds are widely distributed in
  temperate and tropical regions. Many cuckoos live
  in the canopy of the rainforests (in Australia,
  South America, Asia, and Africa), although others
  live in the desert (like the road runner, which
  is a ground cuckoo) and other varied
  environments.

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A kangaroos' baby is called a joey. When a joey
is born it can't see or hear and it has no hair.
When a joey is scared it dives headfirst in the
pouch and does a roll! There are 68 kind s of
kangaroos! In the tail there are alot of bones. A
grown up kangaroo can jump as long as a bus. The
kangaroo's pouch is the biggest pouch out of the
marsupials!
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turtle

• The shell of the turtle is a unique structure. It
  basically encloses the body in a box that is
  covered with hardened scales The top part is
  called the carapace, and the bottom part the
  plastron.
• The shell is actually an extension of the ribs.
  They have expanded outwards and the tips have
  fused together to form a circle of peripheral
  bone. The whole arrangement is then laid over
  with large hard scales or scutes'. It's an
  unusual arrangement, as it means the ribs contain
  the shoulder and pelvic girdle, whereas in all
  other vertebrates, such as ourselves, the
  shoulders and hips are outside of, not inside,
  the ribcage.

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General information about a platypus female

• She lays eggs in her special nesting chamber and
  feeds her young on milk straight after the
  platypus has hatched. The egg shells are soft
  like paper bags.
• The male platypus grows to about 50 centimeters
  in length and weighs 1.6 kg.

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• The rat is a small rodent. Rats are found
  worldwide in almost every type of environment.
  They are related to mice, but are usually larger.
  Rats have powerful teeth and can gnaw through
  very hard materials. Some rats are nocturnal
  (most active at night). Rats have a life span of
  about a year in the wild and breed often during
  their short life.

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butterfly

• Butterflies are beautiful, flying insects with
  large scaly wings. Like all insects, they have
  six jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of
  antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton. The
  three body parts are the head, thorax (the
  chest), and abdomen (the tail end).

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frogs

• Frogs are amphibians, animals that spend part of
  their lives under water and the remainder on
  land. They have long, powerful jumping legs and a
  very short backbone. Most frogs have teeth (in
  the upper jaws only) but toads do not have any
  teeth. Life cycle Like all amphibians, frogs
  spend their lives near water because they must
  return to the water to lay their eggs. Frog eggs
  are laid in the water. When they hatch into
  tadpoles, they breathe with gills and swim using
  a tail. As they mature, they lose their tail, and
  they develop lungs for breathing air.

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Sloths

• Sloths have a thick brown (and slightly-greenish)
  fur coat. Sloths are about the size of a cat
  (roughly 2 feet 61 cm long). They have a short,
  flat head, big eyes, a short snout, a short or
  non-existent tail, long legs, and tiny ears.
  Sturdy, curved claws are on each foot they use
  these claws to hang from trees. Some sloths have
  colonies of green algae encrusting their fur,
  both adding to the camouflage effect and
  providing some nutrients to the sloths, who lick
  the algae.

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