Tropics are an amazing place with a humid and warm climate. The animals living here differ in bright coloring and unpredictable behavior. Many tropical inhabitants contain in zoos, and some can be met only in wildlife.
Big cats of tropicsIn a tropical belt there live large representatives of the cat family. The most widespread of them are leopards and tigers. The tiger is considered the most dangerous predator of tropics. It quickly is also ruthless. Both monkeys, and gazelles, and even zebras become its production. However, despite this, tigers are afraid of people and attack them only in the most exceptional cases.
Leopards of tropics are divided into several types, however all of them have characteristic spots on a skin. By the way, the well-known black panther, a symbol of grace and beauty - too a leopard, but with black spots on a black background. The leopard is also interesting smoky. He climbs trees not worse than a domestic cat, jumping from a branch on a branch and directing horror at monkeys.
Tigers meet not only in tropics, but also in mountains, and in northern areas.
Such different monkeys of the tropical forestAmusing monkeys who so are pleasant to children are not only naughty monkeys and macaques. In tropics is dozens of types of these animal, absolutely tiny and huge. The least monkey is dwarfish the tamarin. Its sizes are 11-15 cm. The small animal is similar to a lovely fluffy toy and easily finds room in a palm. Tamarins live on trees and eat wood juice and insects. The largest monkey is a gorilla. Males reach growth of the average person - 1.75 m, and their weight quite often exceeds 200 kg. Gorillas live on the earth, and eat insects and sprouts of green plants.
According to scientists, gorillas are the immediate family of the person.
Thick-skinned animals of tropicsThe hippopotamus is least of all similar to a slender horse, and meanwhile his name is translated as "a river horse". Hippopotamuses spend the most part of days in the tropical swamp, and even their childbirth happens directly in water. Despite heaviness and the seeming melancholiness, hippopotamuses are very furious if they or to their cubs are threatened by danger. One more typical tropical animal - a rhinoceros. These animals are one of the most dangerous - the furious rhinoceros runs with a speed of 40 km/h, and his sharp horn is capable to pierce the thickest skin. The only thing that saves the victim from rage of a rhinoceros - it is poor eyesight thick-skinned. Rhinoceroses usually on a smell are guided. The only animals to which nosorozhya the rage is elephants at all. Some of the largest mammals live herds which are usually headed by the oldest female. Elephants are one of the cleverest animals - they are capable to distinguish notes, have own language and recognize themselves in a mirror.