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Name one of the most common animals of the tropical evergreen forests.

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Hint: The tropical evergreen forests found nearer to the equator. These forests receive rain all round the year. The area is moist and so the plants do not shed their leaves all-round the year. Even if the trees shed their leaves, their timing of shedding is not exact and so the forest appears green throughout the year. Such heavy rainfall results in deep vegetation and the organisms have adapted themselves to live in tree canopies.

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Since the trees have dense layers of vegetation, the animals that are habituated to live in the trees are mostly found in the tropical evergreen forests. Monkeys are the most common animals found in tropical evergreen forests. There are various varieties of monkeys like lemur, Gibbons, leaf monkeys, Langurs, etc. found in different evergreen forests all over the world.
Other animals like Koala bears, sloth bears, and varieties of birds are also common in this region.

Note:
There are two kinds of evergreen forests. One is the tropical evergreen forests which receive lots of rainfall throughout the year. And the other one is the drier evergreen forests that receive less rainfall in comparison to the tropical evergreen forests.
It is to be noted that the fauna or types of animals of these two evergreen forests differ from each other. In the drier type, animals such as tigers and crocodiles can be found. In the tropical one, animals adapted to living on trees are more common.