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Ade Adepitan

Adepitan also participated in Beyond Boundaries which was a four-part documentary in which Adepitan trekked through rainforests, deserts, rivers and mountains in Nicaragua and made his own video diary filmed in London and Spain, talking about his sporting aspirations and how he coped as a London boy living in Zaragoza unable to speak any Spanish.

Aerial root

In the subtropical to warm-temperate rainforests of northern New Zealand, Metrosideros robusta, the rātā tree, sends down aerial roots down several sides of the trunk of the host.

Argyrodendron

Argyrodendron actinophyllum and Argyrodendron trifoliolatum occur in scrubs and rainforests along the east coast of Australia, but Argyrodendron peralatum has a restricted distribution in north Queensland between Tully and Cooktown.

Calisto bruneri

The species inhabits rainforests, wet sclerophyllous low forests and pine forests.

Calisto muripetens

The species inhabits evergreen forests of the mogotes vegetation complex, limestone hills of vertical slopes, and rainforests, flying mostly in shady places.

Charles S. Cockell

In 1993 Cockell piloted a modified microlight aircraft over the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia designed for catching moths over the canopy.

Colón Province

This province has traditionally been focused in commerce (through the Colón Free Zone, Panama Canal and its banking activities), but also has natural resources that are being developed as tourist attraction, such as coral reefs and rainforests.

Cottan-Bimbang National Park

'Cottan-bimbang' is the local Aboriginal word for the walking stick palm (Linospadix monostachya), which grows in the park's temperate rainforests.

Danaea

Danaea is the basal lineage in the Marattiaceae and the oldest fossils are from the Paleocene, a period where rainforests became more abundant.

Delicious Monster

The company's name is based on the name of a plant that grows in the rainforests of tropical America, Monstera deliciosa.

Flaccid paralysis

Curare is a poison that comes from a plant grown in the rainforests of South America.

Gibbon

Gibbons occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Java.

Horsfieldia ampliformis

It is only known to exist in the former Sepik Province (now East Sepik and Sandaun Provinces) and Morobe Province, where it grows in rainforests in the foothills and low areas of mountains.

Lasjia

In the late 1800s Queensland Bellenden Ker Range rainforests, Bama first Australian peoples taught European Australian scientists of L. whelanii trees bearing the large seeds "extensively used for food".

Lesula

The lesula lives in rainforests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the 2007 specimen found in captivity in the village of Opala.

M. robustum

Megaphobema robustum, the Colombian giant tarantula or Colombian giant redleg, a spider species found in the tropical rainforests of Colombia and Brazil

Marmosa

Mouse opossums are generally found in rainforests as they scavenge bromeliads for food.

Southern Ground Hornbill

Triennial breeding is extremely rare in birds: probably the only other bird which breeds on a triennial basis is the Ornate Hawk-Eagle of Neotropical rainforests.

Tafua

The Tafua Rainforest Preserve was established in 1990 as a covenant between the village chiefs (matai) and funds from Seacology, model Christie Brinkley and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to protect native rainforests.

Thomas Lobb

Phalaenopsis amabilis (1846), an epiphytic moth orchid from rainforests across Java, Philippines, New Guinea and Northern Australia;


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