Rainforest Riddles: 28 Wild Riddles with Answers

I fall from the sky nearly every day here, so much that the forest is named after me. What am I?

I hang upside down from branches and move so slowly that tiny green plants grow in my fur. I only climb down about once a week. What am I?

I’m a big, bright parrot, red, blue and yellow, with a long tail and a beak so strong I can crack hard nuts. What am I?

I’m the biggest cat in the Americas. I have golden fur covered in black rosettes, and unlike most cats I love to swim. What am I?

I’m a sweet treat, but I start out as bitter beans inside big pods that grow on a rainforest tree. What am I?

I’m a long, rope-like plant that climbs up trees toward the sunlight. In jungle movies, heroes swing from tree to tree on me. What am I?

I’m the largest ape in the world. I live in African rainforests, I eat mostly leaves and stems, and I beat my chest when I want to look tough. What am I?

I can change my colors, each of my eyes can look a different way at the same time, and my sticky tongue can shoot out longer than my body. What am I?

I’m a bright green frog with huge red eyes, blue-striped sides and orange feet. I sleep on leaves all day and hunt at night. What am I?

Why couldn’t the toucan pay for dinner at the restaurant?

I’m a tiny frog, bright blue, yellow or red. My colors are a warning: “Don’t eat me, I’m poisonous!” What am I?

We march through the forest carrying pieces of leaf much bigger than our bodies. But we don’t eat the leaves; we use them to grow a fungus garden underground. What are we?

I’m one of the loudest land animals on Earth. My roaring calls in the morning can be heard about 5 kilometers (3 miles) away. What am I?

I have stripes on my legs like a zebra, but my closest relative is the giraffe. I live in the rainforests of central Africa. What am I?

My name means “person of the forest” in Malay. I have shaggy orange-red hair, I live in Borneo and Sumatra, and I build a fresh nest of leaves every night. What am I?

I’m a climbing orchid from the tropics. My long seed pods are dried and used to flavor ice cream, cakes and cookies. What am I?

I’m a milky sap that drips from a rainforest tree when its bark is cut. People in Central America were bouncing balls made from me more than 3,000 years ago. What am I?

I’m the leafy roof of the rainforest, high above the ground. Most of the forest’s animals live up in me, where the sunlight and fruit are. What am I?

Movies say I can strip a whole animal to the bone in seconds, but I mostly eat insects, small fish and leftovers, and some of my kind eat seeds and fruit too. I’m a river fish with very sharp teeth. What am I?

My wings flash bright, shiny blue on top but are brown underneath. When I fold them up, I seem to vanish. What am I?

I’m the heaviest snake in the world. I’m green with dark spots, I spend most of my time in swamps and slow rivers, and I hold my prey by squeezing. What am I?

A rainforest has four layers. From the top down: the emergent layer, the canopy, the understory and… what is the fourth?

I’m the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, and I share my name with the giant river that flows through me and with a tribe of warrior women in Greek myths. What am I?

A sloth climbs at about 4 meters a minute. How long does it take to climb down a 36-meter tree to the ground and back up again?

I’m a plant that grows on tree branches high in the canopy. My stiff leaves form a cup that holds a tiny pond, and some frogs carry their tadpoles up to raise them in it. What am I?

I start life as a seed dropped by a bird high on a tree branch. My roots grow down and wrap around the tree, and sometimes the tree dies inside me, leaving me standing on my own, hollow in the middle. What am I?

I’m a giant tree that pokes up above the canopy. My seed pods are full of fluffy fibers that people once stuffed into pillows and life jackets because they float. What am I?

Many rainforest leaves end in a long, narrow point. Why would a leaf grow a pointy tip like that?