Rain Forest Fascinating Facts
 
 

Share the rain forest facts with the class. Use the resource materials to identify other interesting facts about the rain forest.  Imagine you are walking through an exotic rain forest and encounter an army of ants marching toward you in columns 40 feet wide.  Where would you run for protection?  Could you climb a tree and possibly then encounter a spider big enough to eat a bird or possibly a tree boa?  It would take the wits of a true survivor.  Tell your problem and how you solved it by means of the rain forest.

• Some rain forest get more than 400 inches of rain a year.
• Spiders big enough to eat birds live in South Amerian rain forest.
• Vines growing in the rain forest are sometimes longer than a football field. 
• Scientists think that a cure for cancer may come from rain forest plants.
• Fish that eat fruit live in the Amazon River
• Colobus moneys can eat poisonous leaves and not be harmed.
• Army ants of the rain forest sometimes march in columns 40 feet wide.
• A type of birdwing butterfly has wings that are more than 10 inches across.
• In the country of Ecuador, more than 20,000 different kinds of plants grow in the rain forest.
• Many plants in the rain forest have no roots in the ground, but live up high in trees.

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