Various animals live in a jungle of a rainforest. From giants of elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses to hardly noticeable insects — all find here to themselves a shelter and food. Representatives of some groups of fauna in rainforests are numerous. Exactly here lives most of all monkeys, including humanoid. From birds of one parrots in South America more than 150 types are. Amazonian parrot it is easy to teach to speak. The parrot doesn't understand sense of said words — it simply imitates a combination of sounds. In a rainforest there is a lot of insects: in Brazil over 700 species of butterflies are known, it after all is almost five times more, than in Europe. Giants some of them, as, for example, butterfly of a tizaniye: scope of her wings to 30 cm. In rainforests rich with water along with various reptiles (crocodiles, turtles, lizards, snakes) the set of the amphibious meets. On one only the island of Kalimantan of types amphibious in 7 times more, than in Europe. Reptiles of tropics reach the huge sizes: some crocodiles happen up to 10 m long, and the South American boa an anaconda reaches 9 m. In tropics there are a lot of various ants. The abundance of vegetable food attracts a great number of herbivorous animals whom predators in turn follow in rainforests: leopards (panthers) , jaguars, tigers, various marten etc. Striped or spotty coloring of many inhabitants, though seems very bright and noticeable, actually helps animals to disappear with the twilight of the bottom circles of a rainforest penetrated here and there by sunshine.
