Follow Cui Yifei and He Yulong to unravel the secrets of Baihualing, a tropical rainforest located in Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County on the island province, and learn how to wander in a tropical rainforest like an explorer.
1. True or false: The largest big cat species to ever live is believed to be the saber-toothed tiger. True. According to estimates the saber-toothed tiger could have weighed up to 880 pounds (400 kilograms) and measured more than 7.2 feet (2.2 meters) in length, making it the largest...
RainforestPeat swampHolocenePapua New GuineaThe Holocene Period for the province of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, is characterised by periodic catastrophic volcanism. The region is mantled in dense wet tropical rainforest, and has been occupied by people since the Pleistocene. Analyses of ...
How big is the Amazon rainforest compared to England? How much carbon is in the soil of a temperate forest? How much of the Amazon River is in Brazil? What is the soil like in the Amazon rainforest? How many tropical rainforest biomes are there?
How many animals are in the taiga biome? What is the biodiversity of a forest biome? Are mule deer in the taiga biome? What is a flat grassland habitat? What biome do tigers live in? What is the tropical rainforest biome? Are there any endangered species in the taiga biome?
Best Suited Pets for a Tropical Vivarium As long as you embrace the criteria mentioned above, you shouldn’t have much difficulty deciding which animals you want to keep in your vivarium. However, some of the best-suited species and groups of species for rainforest vivaria include the following...
earth will be great. We shall see a massive upsetting of ecosystems, very large increases in soil erosion, increases in flooding and in drought, changes in rainfall patterns and regional, quite possibly global, changes in climate. We shall also probably lose many rare plant and animal species.
Tropical rainforests, arguably the biggest victims of deforestation, cover only about 6 percent of the Earth's land surface [source: WWF]. However, within this 6 percent live almost half of all plant and animal species on Earth. Some of these species only live in small specific areas, which...
Joseph Dean – a British diver known locally as Dino, who has been living on the island for more than a decade – filmed the surging storm roll in from the balcony of his concrete home. ‘Before the typhoon, 85 percent of the island was rainforest,’ he says. ‘Three hours af...
Giving earth reason to act with its own strategy is still a new and foreign concept for the western science, which otherwise argues there on ‘lack of evidence’. People who ‘can feel the environment’, earth’s pulse, or who are...