Many creatures spend much of their lives just living in the canopy. In rain forests, there's a fourth zone called the emergent layer. Here a few tall trees stick out above the canopy.

Emergent: The tallest trees in the forest, some over 50 m in height. Parrots and bats live here. Parrots have sharp beaks to crack open nuts and large toes to grip the tall trees, which sway in ...

emergent layer The tops of the rainforest's very tallest trees - some reaching heights of more than 60m (200ft) - make up what scientists describe as the emergent layer. Towering above the ground ...

A rainforest is typically made up of four key layers: emergent, upper canopy, understory, and forest floor. In the top emergent layer, trees as tall as 200 feet (60 meters) grow far apart and tall ...

Learn about tropical rainforest biomes, deforestation and forest conservation in this geography guide for students aged 11 to 14 from BBC Bitesize.