Explore the Rainforest
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This page is divided into these sections:
About the Rainforest
Animals of the Rainforest
New Links (Check here for your animal.)
About the Rainforest
| Animals in General | A simply presented article on animals in the rain forest. The link to information on specific animals was not working yet. | Suriname Rainforest | This article is sprinkled with links to rainforest animal pictures and sounds. | Rain Forest Action Network's Kids' Corner | Kids' Corner has these sections: 8 Ways Kids Can Help, Native People, Plants, Animals, Questions & Answers, and an article called Life that has a good piece about threats to the forests. | Science in the Rain Forest | A very good, self-guided tour with pictures. Topics are Monkeys, Birds, Night Life, Habitats, and Plants. Public Broadcasting System (Channel 28) created this great site. You might also want to look at the Home Page. | World Deforestation Map | This map shows where forests still are today in green, and forest areas that have been destroyed in brown. Click on the map for a much larger copy. | Deforestation Pictures | Pictures of deforestation from the rainforests in Papua New Guinea. There are a lot of pictures of forest, plants, natives, and bulldozers, so it take a couple of minutes to download this page. Click on any picture for a larger copy. | Amazon Adventure | Great site includes a Travel Diary, Animals, People, and more. The 'Animals' sections are included in the links in the next section where you can check if the animal you are interested in will be there. | Largest Rainforest Reserve | A news article about the creation of the largest protected rainforest area in the world by the government of Brazil. |
| 13 Animals | Picture, map, fact table and article on these rainforest animals: Bearded Pig, Blue Bird of Paradise, Brazilian Tapir, Chimpanzee, Flying Dragon, Gorilla, Indian Cobra, Okapi, Orangutan, Salano, Slow Loris, Vine Snake, Xenosaurus | 13 Animals | Animal photos and information from our National Zoological Park. It is a very useful place to see more than one photo of gorillas, jaguars, orangutans, emerald tree boas, green tree pythons, red-eyed tree frogs and many more. | Suriname Rainforest | This article is sprinkled with links to rainforest animal pictures and sounds. | Rain Forest Action Network's Kids' Corner | Kids' Corner has these sections: 8 Ways Kids Can Help, Native People, Plants, Animals, Questions & Answers, and an article called Life that has a good piece about threats to the forests. | Science in the Rain Forest | A very good, self-guided tour with pictures. Topics are Monkeys, Birds, Night Life, Habitats, and Plants. Public Broadcasting System (Channel 28) created this great site. You might also want to look at the Home Page. | Costa Rica's Manatees | This is about the ways in which the manatee is endangered. It's pretty grown-up reading, so get some help if you need to. | Life in the Forest | From here you can go to pages with articles and pictures of many rainforest animals: Anteaters, Bats, Boa Constrictor, Capybara, Cock of the Rock, Coatimundi, Hoatzin, Jaguar, Kinkajou, Llama, Alpaca, and VicuÒa, Macaws and Parrots, Monkeys, Ocelot and Margay, Puma, Quetzal, Sloth, Snakes, Tapir, Toucan, Tree and Poison Arrow Frogs, Urub™ | Life in the River | From here you can go to pages with articles and pictures of many Amazon river creatures: Anaconda, Candiru, Catfish, Electric Eels, Freshwater dolphins, Giant Otters, JacarÈ and Caiman (Alligators), Manatee, Piranha, Piraruc™, Stingray, Turtles | Golden Lion Tamarin | A very complete page with paragraphs on how they look, where they live, their society, what they eat, conservation, threats to their survival, and what is being done to help them survive. | Many Animals | This page is the index to a site full of animals. Choose the family of animals you need, then choose from a list of animals. The animal pages are very complete, with good information and pictures, but the creators of the site do not permit copying. Look, read, and then write or type your own notes. Get pictures from a different site. | Golden Lion Tamarin | A sort of notecard full of information and a good picture are on this page from the Washington Park Zoo. | Mandrill | A sort of notecard full of information and a good picture are on this page from the Washington Park Zoo. | Search for an Animal | Search this 'Animal Diversity Web' for an animal by typing the name of an animal in the first empty white box, then click on "Search". MAKE NO SPELLING MISTAKES! There are a lotÝof very big words and no pictures. | Animals in General | A simple article on animals in the rain forest. The Rainforest Workshop link near the bottom of the page is not working. |
| Black Howler Monkey | Look here for great pictures, key fact list, sound and video (if your computer can handle it), and more. | Cebidae Family of Monkeys | A plain page with a list of all the scientific and common names of this family of monkeys, which includes Howler monkeys. |
E-mail Site Designer, K. Gramcko
Picture from a site by Becky Naas & Amy Throgmorton
USI Students for Summer 3 Education 469
July 31, 1996