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Rain Forest Canopy

This view from a rain forest floor reveals openings in the canopy where sunlight gets through. Despite the blanketed look of rain forests from above, canopy trees actually rarely touch, possibly to minimize the spread of disease and leaf-eating bugs.

Photograph by Mattias Klum