Animals In The Rainforest Food Chain
Using a food chain diagram.
Animals in the rainforest food chain. Animals lower in the food chain can kill or damage animals higher in the food chain through the use of abilities or biting tails. Most children respond better to new information when it is introduced in a familiar way, and these coloring pages are perfect for that! These links are called food chains.
What is a food chain? Water and nutrients are also passed through the. This rainforest food chain coloring book is a great way to introduce your children to the rainforest and to some of the kinds of plants and animals found there.
The amazon rainforest food chain has different trophic levels that include primary producers, primary consumers and secondary, tertiary and quaternary consumers. As in any other food web, even in this food web, the producers are plants. Examples of these in the amazon rainforest are the jaguar and the boa constrictor.
The food chain in the daintree ecosystem will be strongly impacted by the increase of urbanisation due to the deforestation of the land that people are building on causing the habitats of the animals to be destroyed and the animals having to move to find food and shelter. Think of it this way: Top of the jungle food chain big cats like leopards and jaguars rely on their speed, agility and size to prey on smaller animals such as armadillos, birds, turtles and small monkeys.
The tropical rainforest animals in this group include capybaras, tapirs, deer, monkeys, squirrels, grasshoppers, etc. An important link in the food chain of the tropical rainforest, birds spread seeds around the forest as they fly, adding to the diversity and richness of the forest. Most animals eat more than one kind of food, so they are part of several different food chains.
It's almost pitch black on the forest floor. For example, in the rain forest food chain to the left, the arrow leads from the figs to the sloth, from the sloth to the jaguar, and so on. The plants in the rainforest play an important role in the rainforest food chain as well.