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Descriptive of habitats of some forests; such as, in southern Asia.

  • When a reference is made to acrodendrocoline creatures living in seasonal forests, it is a description of a habitat that is located in areas where the rainfall is concentrated into a wet or a rainy season.
  • This rainy season is known as a monsoon at which time it will contain eight and one fourth feet (2.5 meters) of rain in a short period of just three months which is as much as some tropical rain forests receive throughout the whole year.
  • In Asia's seasonal forests, there are some acrodendrocoline birds, including giant hornbills; as well as, some of the world's largest snakes.
—Source: Smithsonian Animal Encyclopedia, page 48.
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