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unusual facts about rain forest



Antrophyum mannianum

Antrophyum mannianum is a species of the genus Antrophyum (fern family Vittariaceae) occurring in the African rain forest and montane forest of East Africa and the Albertine Rift.

Mannarkkad

Silent Valley (a tropical evergreen rain forest with an unbroken evolutionary history of 50 million years) is only 35 km from Mannarkkad.

Schouten Islands

The group consists of Biak Island, Supiori and Numfor, and numerous smaller islands, mostly covered in rain forest.


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Anatea

The color pattern (dark brown anterior, light, yellow brown posterior) of both is quite rare in ants, although two other myrmicine ants from the same area of rain forest (Xiphomyrma tenuicrius and Lordomyrma sp.) also show it.

Apistogramma cacatuoides

The cockatoo dwarf cichlid is found in the Amazon River basin, in tributaries of the Ucayali, Amazon and Solimões rivers from the Pachitea River to Tabatinga in Peru and Colombia where it lives in small shallow streams or lagoon-like waters in the rain forest.

Autographa sansoni

Occurring mainly in the Pacific northwest, it thrives in mid-to-high elevation conifer forest habitat, as well as some areas of coastal rain forest in the Coast range.

Blommersia angolafa

Andreone et al. suggest that this species may also occur at other rain forest sites that fall within this elevational and latitudinal range for eastern Madagascar, such as Makira Natural Park"?title=Mananara Nord">Mananara Nord.

Calibishie

Stretching from the rugged mountains of Pennville, through the picturesque fishing village of Calibishie, to the crashing surf of the Marigot beaches, the Calibishie Coast is one of the few areas in the world where you can travel from the seashore to rain forest in little more than a mile.

Cow tree

Couma macrocarpa of the family Apocynaceae, a tropical rain forest tree native to Colombia, also known as leche caspi and perillo negro

Konini

The Primary school is a prominent landmark, along with Konini Road itself; a long bending street that moves from the suburb of Glen Eden to the idyllic setting of the Waitakere Ranges and native rain forest.

Mycena luxaeterna

The mushroom was discovered in a very limited area of the Atlantic rain forest of São Paulo, Brazil and is known to exist only at this location.

New Guinea Highlands

Above 3,000 metres elevation, the high mountain forest yields to remote sub-alpine habitats including alpine meadows, conifer forest, tree-fern (Cyathea) grasslands, bogs, and shrubby heaths of Rhododendron, Vaccinium, Coprosma, Rapanea, and Saurauia all quite different from the tropical rain forest that covers most of New Guinea.

Open Source Vulnerability Database

The project was started in August 2002 at the Blackhat and DEF CON Conferences by several industry notables (including H. D. Moore, rain.forest.puppy, and others).

Orangutan Foundation International

Founded by Dr. Birute Galdikas, one of three anthropologists (The Trimates) to study great apes under the guidance of Dr. Louis Leakey, OFI continues to rescue and rehabilitate orangutans, preparing them for release back into protected areas of the Indonesian rain forest.

Psilocybe weraroa

It is fairly abundant in the early winter and spring months in lowland mixed rain-forest near Wellington.

Quinault Rainforest

The rain forest is located in the valley formed by the Quinault River and Lake Quinault.

Scimitar babbler

As with other babbler species, they frequently occur in groups of up to a dozen, and the rain forest species like Indian Scimitar Babbler often occur in the mixed feeding flocks typical of tropical Asian jungle.

Snoqualmie Falls

Here, the river trail descends 300 feet in half a mile passing though temperate rain forest with moss covered Bigleaf Maple, Douglas-fir, Sword Fern and Salal and places to step off the trail and rest or enjoy the scenery.

Takht-e Suleyman Massif

The massif is limited to Taleqan valley from south, Kelardasht green plane from east, Abbas Abad rain forest & thick vegetated hills/slopes at north, and Shahsavar rain forests and Se Hezar valley at west.

Tatunca Nara

In the 1970s, German foreign correspondent Karl Brugger met "Tatunca Nara", who told him of the history of Akakor, an underground city below the rain forest.