Costa Rican Rainforest Photo Gallery
Sandy Wiseman has been taking pictures in the rainforest for many years. Six rooms in this web gallery show detailed photographs of wildlife. She tells how each animal adapts to life in the forest and where each animal spends its time.
An extensive web site devoted exclusively to the gorilla.
Manu: The Living Edens, Peru's Hidden Rain Forest
Information on specific animals living in the rainforest that surrounds the Amazon in South America are organized in the following categories: birds, insects, mammals, reptiles, and rodents.
Rainforest Action Network The Kid's Corner
At this web site information on animals is located under Rainforests Are Full Of Life and Rainforest Animals.
Written just for kids. This is my first choice for children. Arranged topically under the following categories: Types of Rainforests, Where Rainforests are Located, What They Are Like, Plant and Animal Interactions, Rainforest Plants, Rainforest Animals, 2 Stories, and other Rainforest Links.
Marshall Middle School children in Olympia, Washington authored this site listing information on birds, amphibians, insects and mammals.
Click on wildlife. Lists animals under the level in the rainforest where they live. Authored by fourth graders at Highland Park Elementary School.
"Our goal of placing our work on the internet is to increase rainforest awareness," wrote sixth graders at Shady Hill School. They divided information for this project into four categories: rainforest animals, people, plants, and climate. There is brief information on such animals as monkeys, gorillas, damsel flies, capybaras, ocelots, sloths, chameleons, and quetzals.
As you scroll down the page you reach an alphabetical list of thumbnail pictures on endangered and threatened species at zoos, many are of course animals from rainforests. Clicking on the thumbnail gives you an enlarged picture. There's another section above the pictures that lists zoos that house endangered animals. For instance at the Oakland Zoo clicking on Teachers & Kids takes you to endangered species under Student Resources. Here there's more detailed information on specific animals.