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Ques%on: What is so powerful itcould kill up to 20 people?Answer: The poison inthe skin of one poisonarrow frog!
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Rainforests are home to more than half of the animals, plants and other living things in the world. However, they only cover one sixteenth of the Earth's land!
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Some of the biggest trees in rainforests are over 1,000 years old.
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A parson's chameleon has a long, s%cky tongue which it shoots out of its mouth to catch food.
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Each year, it rains on about 180 days in London, but on more than 300 days in some rainforests!
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90% of the world's monkeys live in rainforests.
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A sloth only produces droppings about once a week!
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The biggest snakes in the world live in rainforests. Some pythons can swallow prey that is the size of a pig!
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Some rainforest plants are carnivorous, which means they eat meat!
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An adult panda is bigger than an adult human. But a baby panda weighs less than an apple!
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There aren't many plants on the forest floor because it is so dark.
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Bananas were first found in rainforests. The bud in this photo will unfold. The flowers inside will turn into bananas.
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Every second, an area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is cut down.
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Two-‐thirds of the Earth's fresh water is in the Amazon rainforest.The Amazon river is 6,400km long!
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The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat.It has a body the size of a bumblebee!
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Many foods that we eat were originally discovered in the rainforests, including mangoes, bananas, chocolate, coffee and vanilla.
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The world's longest insects live in south-‐east Asia. They are s%ck insects and can be 30cm in length (and 55cm with their legs stretched out)!
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Vampire bats drink the blood of sleeping mammals. But they rarely drink enough to hurt their vic%ms!
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There are 330 different types of parrot in the world.
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2,000 tropical forest plants have been shown to be helpful in trea%ng cancer.