Types Of Animals In The Rainforest. An enormous butterfly flits from plant to plant. More than half of the world's species live in tropical rainforests.
This lesson plan will make use of two text lessons to list and describe the animals who inhabit the rainforests. Rainforests cover between 6 and 7% of the world’s land surface, yet are home to more than half of all the world’s animal and plant species. Lowland rainforests contain the tallest trees of all the types of rainforest, with the largest variety of species.
Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and invertebrates.
It is home to around 40,000 plant species, nearly 1,300 bird species, 3,000 types of fish, 427 species of mammals, and 2.5 million different insects. Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and invertebrates. There are also many different species of birds and frogs living in the rainforest. Here are the different types of animals in the animal kingdom: