Daintree Rainforest

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.