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2 unusual facts about Cloud forest


Anolis podocarpus

Anolis podocarpus occurs in the upper basin of the Zamora River in southeastern Ecuador in secondary forest, montane cloud forest and evergreen forest.

Oleaceae

The Oleaceae are important components of tropical forests ranging from low-lying dry forest to montane Cloud forest.


Bill Gates' flower fly

Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly found only in Costa Rican high montane cloud forests and named after Bill Gates.

Grizzled giant squirrel

The grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in the highlands of the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka, and in patches of riparian forest along the Kaveri River and in the hill forests in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southern India.

Ilex cookii

This tree is only known from a single specimen and a few seedlings in the cloud forests on Cerro de Punta and Monte Jayuya, both at Toro Negro State Forest in Puerto Rico.

Llanganates National Park

The area is 20 miles from the town of Baños but the trek takes around eight hours through swampy and mountainous jungle The area of discovery is at an altitude of 8,500ft above sea level and in cloud forest.

Machalilla National Park

It incorporates beaches, fog forest, dry forest, small islands and two larger islands, Salango and Isla de la Plata, the latter named for a legendary hoard of silver left by Sir Francis Drake.

Mocinnodaphne

Like Oreodaphne they are present in Mountain Cloud forest in tropical areas like the Sierra Madre Del Sur in Guerrero, Mexico.


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Amentotaxus formosana

Amentotaxus formosana is found only in Taiwan where it only occurs in four localities of cloud forest in the Hengchun Peninsula, in the extreme south of the island.

Crotalus intermedius

Much of the range of this species consists of seasonally dry pine-oak forest, but it has also been found in cloud forest near Omilteme in Guerrero, as well as in the desert near Cacaloapan in Puebla, and Pachuca in Hidalgo.

House of the Tiger King

He put together an expedition and set out into Peru’s Madre de Dios jungle, the densest cloud forest on earth.

Laj Chimel

Laj Chimel or Chimel is a community located in the cloud forest of the municipality of San Miguel Uspantán, Department of El Quiché, Guatemala.

Tithraustes snyderi

It is found in cloud-forest habitats within La Amistad, an international park extending from south-central Costa Rica into the Chiriqui Province of Panama.

Wildlife of Peru

In January 2007, scientists discovered a new species of cloud-forest rodent of the spiny rat family (Isothrix barbarabrownae) in Manu.