Rainforests provide us with oxygen, help maintain our climate and give us essential foods and medicines.
Rainforests have intense tropical sunlight, high temperatures and virtually constant rainfall.
This environment has enabled organisms to develop specialized adaptations to the environment and to each other. Over time, this specialization has promoted extraordinary biodiversity in the rainforest. Please follow this self-guided tour of some of the various plants and animals you would see as you take a walk through the rainforest. Monkeys spend most of their time leaping around the trees of the the rainforests. Rainforests are also very busy at night when different animals, called nocturnal animals, wake up.