Hello Toad friends!!
It’s Hannah here with your ninth and final ecoregion. The challenge is to transform your poetic voice into that of the wildlife from the Tropical Rain Forest!
Old treasured words, “Classics Edition of the World Atlas-Hammond 1967,” says Tropical Rain Forest: Trees over one hundred feet high form a canopy above dense, steaming undergrowth in which rubber, teak, mahogany, bamboo and balsa grow.
(Wiki Creative Commons Attribute Author=Mikenorton
Rainforest canopy at the Forestry
Rainforest canopy at the Forestry
Research Institute Malaysia)
Some information I pooled from the handy-dandy Wikipedia...
Tropical rainforests have existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
They have been called the "jewels of the Earth" and the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered within them.[8] It is likely that there may be many millions of species of plants, insects and microorganisms still undiscovered in tropical rainforests, (wiki).
There are four different types of rainforest: Lowland equatorial evergreen rain forests, Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen seasonal forests, Montane rain forests and Flooded forests.
The rainforest has an interesting structure that’s broken into layers: Forest Floor, Understory Layer, Canopy Layer and Emergent Layer.
Different types of animals reside in these different layers that I’ve listed. Here’s a general list of tropical wildlife to pick from, (check copyrights for the images you choose).
Oh, I love monkeys!! These two are so intent in sharing a meal!
(Wiki cca author=cc-by-2.5 Cebus apella group. Capuchin Monkeys Sharing)
There’re so many amazing species of tropical birds you could browse but in the meantime you could enjoy this movie I watched recently.
It’s an inspiring film about the Harpy, a Jungle Eagle on MPBN.
(Wiki cca Harpy Eagle -- Camino del Oleoducto, Parque Nacionale Soberania, Panama -- )
One could write from the perspective of this intriguing creature, the Koala Bear.
Please write something fresh and new for this challenge and be sure to swing from your rainforest vine to find your near and dear rainforest writing friends!!
Smiles and happy writing to everyone!