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William B. Rice

Consultants

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.

Kent State University

Lori Oczkus

Literacy Consultant

Thorsten Pape

Animal Trainer

Based on writing from

TIME For Kids. TIME For Kids and the TIME

For Kids logo are registered trademarks of

TIME Inc. Used under license.

Publishing Credits

Dona Herweck Rice , Editor-in-Chief

Lee Aucoin , Creative Director

Jamey Acosta , Senior Editor

Heidi Fiedler , Editor

Lexa Hoang , Designer

Stephanie Reid , Photo Editor

Rachelle Cracchiolo , M.S.Ed., Publisher

Image Credits: pp.43 (bottom), 46, 52

(bottom), 56, 57 (top) Alamy; p.57 (bottom)

Corbis; pp.2223, 4849 Getty Images;

pp.28, 35 (bottom) iStockphoto; p.51

(bottom) Roger Tidman/FLPA Image Broker/

Newscom; pp.5253 Tom Hamer/The

National Park Service; pp.89, 1011, 3233

(illustrations) Kevin Panter; p.12 (bottom)

Photo Researchers Inc.; p.24 (bottom) Aiwok

[CC-BY-SA]/Wikimedia; p.40 Mark Pellegrini

[CC-BY-SA]/Wikimedia; p.41 Robert Nash

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Lifeless ........................

Endangered ....................

Dangerous Factors .............

African Jungles ................

Asian Jungles .................

South American Jungles ........

North American Jungles ........

Ways to Help ..................

Glossary ......................

Index ........................

Bibliography .................. 62

More to Explore ...............

About the Author ..............

Table

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Contents

Lifeless

The jungle is alive . Alive with plants . Alive

with animals . Alive with sound , color , motion , and

fragrance . It pulses and breathes as though the jungle

itself were a single living thing .

More species than can be imagined live in the thick

foliage of the worlds jungles. But year by year even

day by day more and more species simply cease to

exist . Left unprotected , what was once filled with life

becomes silent , gray , and still .

Lifeless . Extinct .

red-eyed tree frog

black-and-white lemur

s What animals live in the

worlds jungles ?

s In what ways are they in

danger ?

s How can we protect them ?

Endangered

Over time , Earth changes . In some areas , it gets

warmer and wetter . In others , it may get drier or

colder . It is natural that some species are unable to

handle these changes . They cannot thrive and prosper .

At some point , they cease to be . But more and more ,

the effects of human actions weaken otherwise healthy

species . They become endangered , or in danger of

dying off . Sometimes , they become extinct , or wiped

from the planet .

Some people think its merely sad when a species

becomes endangered and extinct . Theyre sorry that

humans will no longer see that species . But the truth

is , sad is the least of the problem . All species depend

on one another . The loss of a single species can have

tragic results for all .

toucan

kapok flower

golden-lion tamarin

tarantula

Hard to Imagine

It is estimated that more than 1,700,000 kinds of

organisms currently exist on Earth . They include

more than :

; 300,000 plant species

; 60,000 animal species ( including humans )

; 1,000,000 species of insects , bugs , and similar

ocean organisms

; 50,000 species of fungi , lichens ,

and similar organisms

Species

A species is a type of life form . Panthers , toucans ,

and kapok trees are all types of species . Throughout

history , there have been millions of species on Earth .

Life has existed for many hundreds of millions of years .

Different species prosper at different times in different

ways . And sometimes , they naturally fade away .

Kingdom

The largest group of living

things can be classified into

kingdom Animalia .

Phylum

Only some of these

animals can be classified

as Chordata . They have

backbones.

Class

Mammals belong to the class

Mammalia . Most mammals

have hair and nourish their

young with milk .

Order

Taxonomy divides each

group into smaller groups.

Those animals in order

Carnivora eat only meat .

Family

Every living thing goes into a

category at each level . The

family Felidae is made up of

different types of cats .

Genus

The genus name is the first

word in the scientific name

of a creature.

Species

This chart shows that a tiger

falls in Animalia , Chordata ,

Mammalia, Carnivora,

Felidae , Panthera , and

Panthera Tigris .

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