Photographs and text introduce rain forests along with the plant and animal life which inhabit the different layers of the rain forest. These animals include: anaconda, ants, archer fish, army ants, Asian leaf frog, basalisk lizard, blue morpho butterfly, capybora, chameleon, chimpanzee, colobus monkey, colugo, common marmoset, crocodial, spectacled caiman, African elephant, emperor tamarin, false leaf katydid, fishing bat, fruit bat, flying gecko, giant armadillo, gibbon, golden tree boa, gorilla, great white egret, green tree python, hermit hummingbird, violet-eared hummingbird, green iguana, jaguar, jaguarendi, king vulture, leaf-cutter ants, macaw, Amazon manatee,mona monkey, mosquitos, orangutan, orb weaver spider, owl butterfly, paper wasps, yellow-chevroned parakeet, Philipine eagle, piranha fish, poison arrow frog, postman butterfly, praying mantis,