Rainforest Animals And Plants Adaptations. For better survive in the hot, wet tropics, plants of the tropical rainforest have had to develop special features called adaptation. Plants and animals living in the tropical rainforest must be able to adapt to the year round humidity and constant warm, humid and wet weather.
The rainforest is a specific type of forest that has an extreme amount of rainfall. • slide shaped leaves lets rain run off so fungus doesn’t grow on plants. Plants have prop roots that help support them in the shallow soils.
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The animals and plants are important to the rainforest as they contribute to the way it works, without them there would be no rainforest ecosystem. So the plants here have drip tips and waxy surfaces on leaves to shed the excess water. Amazing adaptations focuses on how plants and animals have adapted to suit living in a rainforest environment. Fact sheet 11 (continued) 2.