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Rain forest waterfalls. Photo by Paul S. Taylor. Copyrighted.Rainforest Environment

    Rainforest creatures
  1. Amazon jungle with distant howler monkeys, insects and birds
  2. Rainforest ambience
  3. Ambience, different forest
  4. Ambience, another forest

Macaw. Photo copyrighted.Birds

  1. Chachalaca chatter
  2. Blue-and-yellow Macaw
    Ara ararauna recorded by Bennett Hennessey
  3. Red-shouldered Macaw calls at stream
    Diopsittaca nobilis recorded by Jarrod Swackhamer in Brazil
  4. Parrot in Amazon
  5. Macaw (upset)
  6. Cockatoo (shrieks)
  7. Coot call
  8. Amazonian Grosbeak song
    Cyanoloxia rothschildii with Fawn-breasted Wren and Screaming Piha in background —recorded by Richard E. Webster
  9. Amazonian Royal Flycatcher
    Onychorhynchus coronatus recorded by Felipe Arantes
  10. Amazonian Inezia
    Inezia subflava recorded by Peter Boesman in Columbia, with dove and rooster in the background
  11. Amazonian Antpitta
    Hylopezus berlepschi recorded by Fernando Igor de Godoy, Purus River, Brazil
  12. Amazonian Antshrike
    Thamnophilus amazonicus cinereiceps recorded by Marina Maximiano in Iranduba, Brazil
  13. Guinea Hen
  14. Kookaburra
  15. Kookaburras
  16. Kookaburras (different & longer)
  17. Toucan (Chesnut Mandibled)
  18. Yellow-throated Toucan duet
    Ramphastos ambiguus recorded by Joost van Bruggen
  19. Birds flapping wings
  20. Crow
  21. Magpie
  22. Spectacled Owl (Amazon)
  23. Rainforest Scops Owl
  24. Different owl hooting
  25. Parrot squawking
  26. Woodpecker
  27. Rooster in native camp
  28. Bird chirps
  29. Bird cry
  30. Bird song 1
  31. Bird song 2
  32. Another bird’s song
  33. Bird with strange warning sound

Photo copyrighted. All rights reserved.Insects

  1. Mosquito
  2. Wasp building nest
  3. Rainforest Cicada (Borneo)
  4. Crickets
  5. Crickets, longer
  6. Buzzing insect
  7. Bee
  8. Bees swarming

Reptiles

  1. Snake hissing
  2. Lizard Eating

Jungle frogAmphibians

  1. Frog in rainforest
  2. Tropical frogs
  3. Tree frogs (night)
  4. Frog 2
  5. Frogs
  6. Frog (small)

Jaguar photo. Copyrighted. All rights reserved.Felines

  1. Jaguar (scary)
  2. Angry tiger (scary)
  3. Tiger 2
  4. Tiger 3
  5. Cats fighting
    some natives have pet cats and sometimes they fight
  6. lionLion roar—In modern times, lions no longer live in rainforests, but we included a couple because they sound scary.
  7. Lion

    See: Lions in the Bible

MonkeyMonkeys and Apes

  1. Monkey calls, jungle night
  2. Howler monkeys (distant, before dawn)
  3. Chimpanzee
  4. Monkey
  5. Monkey chatter
  6. Monkey, another
  7. Monkeys
  8. Ape, another

Bats

  1. Bats

Photo copyrighted. All rights reserved.Elephants

  1. Elephant howling in distance
    —Yes, some elephants do live in rainforests in southeast Asia
    and in some parts of Africa.
    Indian elephants can weigh up to 3000 pounds
    and eat up to 700 pounds of trees, grasses, and bamboo per day.
    Some are used to help in rainforest logging operations.

  2. Elephant, closer
  3. Elephant, another

Other Mammals

  1. Pig snort
    many natives raise them
  2. Pig screech
  3. Pig jumping in water
  4. Dog barking in jungle camp

Water

  1. Stream, fast-flowing
  2. Morning ambience (South America)
  3. Night ambience
  4. Animal crossing a stream
  5. Waterfall, large
  6. Stream, small
  7. River
  8. Beach (short)
  9. Fire burning the forest

Water droplets on jungle plants. Photo copyrighted. All rights reserved.Weather

  1. Rain and campfire
  2. Rain, light
  3. Rain, heavy
  4. Rain storm
  5. Thunder and rain
  6. Windy storm (short)
  7. Thunder A
  8. Thunder B
  9. Hurricane/Typhoon

Photo copyrighted. All rights reserved.People

  1. Native Flute
  2. Canoe paddling
  3. Walking through dense forest
  4. Drum
  5. Drum (distant)
  6. Cutting tree with an axe
  7. Tree falling
  8. Filling vehicle with cut wood
  9. Stirring cooking pot
  10. Boiling stew pot
  11. Gun shots in the jungle (close)
  12. Gun shots in the jungle (distant)
  13. Rifle shots

Native wooden flute. Photo copyrighted.Music

  1. Bamboo Flute
  2. Flutes (music)

Sounds from Space

  1. Astronaut’s description of Earth (Apollo 8)
  2. Reading from Genesis (Apollo 8)
  3. Prayer from Apollo 8



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Article Version: November 14, 2024

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