-Animals that Live in Rainforests: Ridiculously huge numbers of animals live in rainforests, including microscopic animals, invertebrates (like insects and worms), fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The different rainforests of the world support different populations of animals. A few animals from each rainforest are listed below:
South America
Insects- morpho butterfly, Julia butterfly, Monarch butterfly, and millions of other insects.
Mammals- jaguar, ocelot, didelphid opossums, sloth, howler monkey, spider monkey, capybara, many bats, marmosets, procyonids, peccaries.
Birds- quetzal, macaw, tinamous, curassows, hoatzins, hummingbirds, eagles, ovenbirds, antbirds, flycatchers, puffbirds, toucans, jacamars, tanagers, tapirs, troupials, honeycreepers, cardinal grosbeaks, xenops.
Reptiles- anaconda, caiman, iguanas, lizards, microteiid lizards, boas, and coral snakes.
Amphibians- poison arrow frog, etc.
Fish- electric eel, piranha.

Southeast Asia
Mammals- tarsiers, orangutans, Siamangs, gibbons, colobine monkeys, tigers, tree shrews, binturong, moonrats, most flying foxes, colugos, bamboo rats, Oriental dormice.
Birds- tree swifts, leafbirds, fairy bluebirds, fantails, whistlers, flowerpeckers, wood swallows.
Insects- Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, Goliath Birdwing butterfly, Saturn Butterfly.

West Africa
Mammals- antelopes, bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla, Mandrill, scaly-tailed squirrels, otter shrews, duikers, okapi, hippopotamus, Cercopithecus monkeys, bushbabies, pygmy hippo, duiker.
Birds- Congo peafowl, African Gray Parrot.
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