Amazonian Animal Alphabet Jessica Lynn Clark
Amazonian Animal Alphabet Written and Illustrated by Jessica Lynn Clark
Welcome to the Jungle! You are invited to explore the Rainforest.
The South American Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest. Other rainforests are in Central America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They are all hot and rainy.
Two thirds of all animal and plant species depend on this ecosystem to survive. Scientists find undiscovered species living there too. Could you be the next to find a new animal? Come discover animals that live in this endangered wilderness. Ready?
An Anteater’s Appetite is Always for Ants.
Baby Beetles Bump into Bunches of Busy Bugs.
Careful Capybaras keep Clean and Cool in Crystal Creek.
Dainty Dragonflies Dart and Dash as the Day Dawns.
Enormous Emerald tree boa Entangles Everyone Easily.
Freaky Fruit bats Feast on Fresh Figs.
Greater Grisons have Grisly Grinding teeth.
Huge Hungry Harpy eagle Hovers above, Hunting.
Inquisitive Iguana Ingests Irresistible Insects.
Jolly Jaguar Jumps to go Jogging.
Kinkajous Kindly comfort Kin in carved out Keeps.
Lazy Lemurs Love Lounging in Little Lofts.
Multiple Macaws Mingle and Make Magical Music.
Nimble Night Monkeys Navigate their Nocturnal Neighborhood.
Orange Ocelot Observes from Overhead.
Predatory Piranhas Possess Perilous Pointy teeth.
Quizzical Quetzal Quickly goes on a Quest.
Red-eyed tree frogs Really Relish Rain and Rivers
Solitary Silly Sloth Sluggishly Scales Sizable trees.
Toco Toucans Taste Tempting Tangerines Together.
Unruly Uakaris Unite in the Understory.
Vampire bats discover Victims with Vocal Vibrations.
Woolly monkeys Wildly Wander the Winding Windblown branches.
X-ray tetra fish swim eXtra fast to eXercise.
Yawning Yonder, Yellow-footed tortoise hasn’t moved since Yesterday.
Zany shorted-eared Zorro Zooms through AmaZonia.
These animals A to Z are only a fraction of earth’s rainforest biodiversity!
Find out more about how to preserve the Rainforests and how to protect these animals. Many are endangered because of the destruction of their rainforest habitat.They need your help! Check out these websites and your local library.
www.kidssavingtherainforest.org www.ran.org www.rainforest-alliance.org www.rainforestconcern.org www.rainforesteducation.com www.rainforestfoundation.org www.rainforestweb.org www.worldwildlife.org
Dedication For the Rainforests. To children and those young at heart who care for endangered wildlife.
copyright 2008 Jessica Lynn Clark