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what are some rainforest animals and how are they adapted to their enviroment?

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1. an animal could be the coral snake, it lives in the amazon and has a very colourful body to lure victims in, yet it is one of the most poisonous snakes and its deadly poison can kill within seconds.There is also the hoatzin which is often called stinkbird, it produces a terrible smell to ward off predators.
2. Animals of the rain forests are provided with a variety of habitats in the different layers of the forest trees. Some live at the top of the tallest trees while others live in the lower zones. Some animals, live on the ground level or even below the surface and so we have this vast and complex pattern of plant and animal life which has been evolving steadily for millions of years. There are two species of two-toed sloth in S. America - Hoffman's (or Unau) found in the forested regions of northern S. America from Ecuador to Costa Rica, and (Choloepus didattylus) in Brazil. Gorillas live in the dense forest of tropical Africa where observation of their daily life becomes extremely difficult. Despite recent successful observations of the mountain gorilla in Zaire, much of their life in the wild remains a mystery. In the tropical forests of Central and South America lives the giant anteater or antbear. The antbear can be seven feet in length from its long narrow snout to its bushy tail. It has an extremely long sticky tongue which darts from its snout as it licks up ants or termites, after it has torn open the insects' nest with its powerful curved claws. Lesser Malay Chevrotain (Tragus javanicus) - S. Asia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo Siamang Gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus) - Malaya and Sumatra OCELOT (Felis pardalis) - Central and South America Black Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus) - New Guinea Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) - Central Africa