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a bridge built so you can be smug above the entire forest.
means A raised walkway or suspension bridge strung through the upper branches of a forest, letting visitors stroll at canopy height to view the treetop world.
from A transparent compound of two plain English words. "Canopy" arrived from Old French "canope," itself from Medieval Latin "canopeum," a mosquito net or bed-curtain — which traces all the way back to Greek "kōnōpeion," a couch with a net to keep off the "kōnōps," the gnat. So the leafy ceiling of a forest is named, oddly, for a bug screen. "Walk" is steady Old English "wealcan," to roll or move about. The pairing is modern, born with the ecotourism and rainforest-research era, when scientists and sightseers alike wanted into the green canopy that the gnat once guarded.
- height
- often 30 meters up, where birds normally rule
- discovery tool
- scientists found whole species living only in treetops
- sway factor
- engineered to wobble, terrifying you on purpose
- hidden world
- the canopy holds half of all land species
- longest
- some stretch over a kilometer through living crowns
canopy walk danum valley — borneo's 80-meter walkway suspended 40 meters above rainforest floor in sabah