1. Question: What is the smallest jungle animal?

Answer: Ant.

2. Question: Where are jungles located?

Answer: In the tropics

3. Question: What is the fastest animal?

Answer: The cheetah is the fastest animal on land. The cheetahs top speed can go up to 73mph.

4. Question: Can black bear climb trees?

Answer: Yes.Black bears have great tree-climbing abilities because they have short, non-retractable claws.

5. Question: What are the two countries on earth that have alligators?

Answer: the United States and China.

6. Interesting facts about elephant

Elephants spend 16 hours a day eating plant food.

The large tusks of African elephants can be over 10 ft (3 m) in length and weigh over 200 lb (90 kg).

7. Interesting facts about jungle animals

Elephants spend 16 hours a day eating plant food.

The large tusks of African elephants can be over 10 ft (3 m) in length and weigh over 200 lb (90 kg).

Some antelope horns can grow to almost 5 ft (1.5 m) long.

Apes and humans are so closely related that they share a large amount of same DNA.

Coyotes are actully more scared of a human.

giraffes� fur darkens when they grow older. A giraffe tongue can be 18 inches long

Tigers are the biggest cat. They can eat 60 pounds of meat in one day.

Raccoons are actually close to the bear family. They like to live in urban areas.

Wolves usually live in packs. They also fight in packs.

Giant pandas are good tree-climbers and swimmers.They have lived on earth for about 3 million years.

Armadillos eat fire ants as food. Armadillos are good diggers and swimmers.

Hummingbird is one of the smallest bird and fastest flying birds.

Not any two zebras have exactly the same stripes.

Quick Facts: Jungles

 Over half of the world’s plant and animals species live in some type of jungle environment

 Jungles are similar to rainforests, but they have less trees and more sunlight

 Jungles are in warm places with lots of rainfall

 Usually found near the equator

 Some animals that live in jungles are tigers, jaguars, elephants, and monkeys

Jungle Facts for Kids

 Jungles are found on the edges of rainforests.

 The Largest Flower in the world 3.3 feet across grows in the jungle

 Scientists found over 200 species of ants on a single tree

 The jungle provides a home for about 1,300 bird species

 The tropical climate provides an environment for about 40,000 species of plants

 The Devil’s Tongue is a spice that is found in the jungle.

 Many of the plants in the jungle are used by the animals to help them hide from predators.

 One of the prettiest plants in the world are called Fairy Queen plants.  These plants are purple and are
expensive to buy.

 The Bees Ballroom flower is home to many different jungle insects, including bees.

 The jungle is an important home to so many different animal species.

 The soil of the jungle does not have a lot of nutrients and the plants make the ground look green like grass.

 There are so many ants on the jungle floor that combined they would weigh four times more than all of the
mammals in the jungle.

 The Tapir is an animal that lives on the jungle floor.  It is a mix between a pig and an anteater.  This animal is
one of the longest surviving mammals.