Daintree Rain forest
You could call a rain forest a jungle. The Daintree rainforest is named after an early Australian Geologist and Photographer. . . Richard Daintree. Some of this forest is a national park.
This drawing shows some animals that live in that rain forest.
The large flightless bird is called a Southern Cassowary. It can weigh up to 92 lbs with a mass of 42 kg. . . and be 5 ft 7 inches or 1.7 meters long. The Cassowary is not an emu. It is an endangered species. I suggest looking up a cassowary photo so you can see how to color these colorful birds.
The bigger mammal on the ground is a tree kangaroo. They weigh up to 25 lbs or a mass of 14 kg. Tree kangaroos are amazingly agile. They can jump down to a branch 30 feet or 9 meters away.
The smallest mammal is a musky rat kangaroo. They are only found in the Daintree rain forest. Musky rat kangaroos have a body that is 9.5 inches or 24 cm long with additional 4.25 inches or 12 cm of tail.
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