Damp equatorial forests of Africa, South America, India are extremely rich and various on the flora and fauna. The fauna includes inhabitants of several tiers – high-rise floors of the wood.
Giley – the damp equatorial forestVechnozelenyeles are located along the equator narrow strips. Here many-tier trees under which kroner the eternal twilight and the stupefying humidity reigns stand solid walls. Temperature in such forests constantly extremely high, at the same time here seasons are not replaced at all. At any time the solid wall of a storm rain can collapse. For this reason such jungle is called still constant and rain. Alexander Humboldt gave them the name "gileya" - from the Greek word "wood".
Some travelers of the past, having visited such forest, called it "green hell".
Each of the plant species and animals meeting in gily has own "floor", the place of constant dwelling. "Floors" in the forest can be to five.
FaunaThe lower tier – the least densely populated floor of the equatorial forest. There live insects, various rodents, predators (including, for example, panthers, jaguars, leopards and other wild cat's) and also wild pigs and small hoofed animals. Elephants – they more small African live in India here and are quite capable to move under a low cover of trees.
By the way, such wood was described by Rudyard Kipling in the book "Mowgli". The boy who is brought up by wolves grew up in gily.
In various and numerous reservoirs – lakes and the rivers – there live water dragons, crocodiles and hippopotamuses. By the way, some rodents live and on higher tiers – they between extremities have special membranes allowing them to plan between trees. On all tiers of the equatorial forest there live various birds, beginning from tiny bright sunbirds and finishing a bird rhinoceros and huge turako. Also one more feathery inhabitant of the equatorial forest – a toucan with his bright yellow neck and a red strip on a beak is very beautiful. Also birds of paradise with long color tails and cops do not lag behind on exoticism. Most of all in rainforests of various species of parrots. However, some (as a rule, the most beautiful and unusual!) from them are on the verge of disappearance – mainly because of activity of poachers. In crowns there live also monkeys: chimpanzee, monkeys, gorillas, macaques, gibbons. They lodge usually packs. In equatorial forests there live also the most various snakes. Among them huge pythons, boas, anacondas who can weigh up to 100 kilograms. Among them there are both viviparous, and yaytsekladushchy types.