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Rainforest Geographic

by Helen.George - SCH.221

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Amazing Rainforest Animals!
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Wonderful Creatures
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Endangered Animals
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Fascinating Facts!
Welcome to our wonderful magazine.
sloths
Are you interested in learning more about the creatures who live in the rainforest? Would you like to learn about these fantastic slow creatures? If so, read this information carefully to find out some more interesting facts. 

Definition
Sloths are gentle creatures – their scientific name, Bradypus, means ‘slow feet’ in Greek. 

Appearance
There are two types of sloths, two-toed and three-toed sloths. Sloths are grey and furry with green algae dotted on their fur.

Diet
A sloth’s diet consists mainly of buds, leaves and tender shoots, although some sloths have been known to eat insects and birds in their diet. 

Habitat
Sloths are tree-dwelling animals, they are found in the jungles of Central America and South America.
By A & M

SPECTACLED CAIMAN FACTS

Do you want to learn about some of the fascinating creatures that live in the rainforest ? Would you like to learn about the spectacled caiman? If so, read on to find out more about this fascinating creature.

Appearance

Spectacled caiman are normally green or yellow but in winter, black pigment expands making them appear darker. They have brown eyes and a bony ridge in between each eye giving it it’s name.

Habitat

They can be found in Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. 


Spectacled caiman basking in the sun.






Diet
A spectacled caimans diet differs during the two main seasons in the dry season they would eat fish. During the wet season they will eat a varied diet of freshwater snails and crabs.

Amazing Fact!
They are nowhere near even half the size of their much much bigger relatives the freshwater caiman. Sorry guys.

Did you know?
They are only a small to medium species ranging from a size of 1.4 metres to 2.5 metres.
By E.W.
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