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Did You Know?
The word ‘jungle’ comes from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘uncultivated land’.
While lions have the nickname “The King of the Jungle” they typically live in savannah and grassland.
Tarzan is a famous fictional character who is raised by apes in African jungles.
The saying “The Law of the Jungle” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories called The Jungle Book, published in 1894.
Only 6% of the world is covered in the rainforest or jungle type conditions but over half the wildlife in the world lives in this area.
Meet The Largest Forest in The World
The Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 square kilometres (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations.
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