What does a tropical rain forest look like? Are there crocodiles in a tropical rain forest?

The tropical rainforest has towering trees, winding vines, lush flowers and plants, quiet pools, rushing streams, and cascading waterfalls. People are very intoxicated and enjoy the natural environment with birds singing and flowers blooming. The following content shares with you the environment of the tropical rainforest and the question that everyone is concerned about: Are there crocodiles in the tropical rainforest?

Contents of this article

1. What does a tropical rainforest look like?

2. Are there crocodiles in the rainforest?

3. Tropical rainforest environment

What does a tropical rain forest look like?

The tropical rainforest has towering trees, tangled vines, and lush flowers and plants. The terrain is complex and diverse, with a variety of forms, from lowland plains dotted with rocky hills to plateau gorges with crisscrossing streams. In the tropical rainforest there are also quiet pools of water, rushing streams, cascading waterfalls, and so on.

The annual rainfall in tropical rainforests is very high, generally above 1,800 mm, and the rainfall is evenly distributed throughout the year, making it moist all year round.

Most tropical rainforests are located between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, and are mainly distributed in jungle areas such as South America, Asia, and Africa.

There is no obvious seasonal change in the tropical rainforest. The climate is hot all year round, with the daytime temperature generally around 30℃ and the nighttime temperature around 20℃.

Are there crocodiles in the rainforest?

There are crocodiles in tropical rain forests. Crocodiles mostly live in fresh water, and saltwater crocodiles can live in sea water. Except for a few crocodiles that live in temperate zones, most crocodiles live in rivers, lakes, and watery swamps in tropical and subtropical areas, and some live in shallows near the coast.

Crocodiles generally like to live in the beaches of lakes and swamps or in wet areas covered with weeds and weeds in hilly streams.

Most of the existing crocodiles in the world are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions such as Africa, Central America, and southern Asia. Only my country's Yangtze alligator and North America's Mississippi alligator are distributed in temperate regions.

Tropical rainforest environment

The tropical rainforest area is hot and rainy all year round, and the plants in it are evergreen and have hygrophilic characteristics. The trees in the tropical rainforest are generally 30 meters high, and the overall environment is humid and hot. Under this climatic condition, the most obvious characteristics of vegetation are high species diversity, complex layers, and large biomass.

Its annual average temperature is 25℃~30℃, and the annual precipitation is high, averaging 2000~4000 mm, evenly distributed throughout the year, and there is no obvious dry season.

In the tropical rainforest, it is difficult for people to distinguish directions, and the extreme humidity will prevent sweat from drying, which will easily breed bacteria. Natural disasters such as mudslides, landslides, and floods are also prone to occur in the rainforest.

Due to long-term and intense leaching and melting in tropical rainforest areas, a large amount of minerals and humus in the soil are lost, and the soil is barren with poor drainage and air permeability.