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CLOUD FOREST |
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Heavy miss and frequent rains support the cloud forests dense, stunted canopy of evergreen trees. In a process called “cloud stripping”, the leaves cause the condensation of the moisture from the clouds. Water is therefore continually forming on a plant surfaces and dripping towards the ground.
The perpetual humidity of the cloud forest makes it an ideal home for lichens, mosses, orchids and epiphytes ferns. The clod forest is also home of a big quantity of birds such as the brilliant Cock of the Rock and numerous iridescent hummingbirds, tanagers and others; in simultaneously the least studied and most biologically diverse habitat in the world. |
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