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Rainforest Animals and Critters

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Go to the following websites and look at the pictures of rainforest animals and play: Jewels of the Rainforest. Choose 2 you are interested in write 5 interesting facts about your animal. Be sure to include the layer your animal lives in, diet, and a description.

http://www.treeremoval.com/tree-frogs-and-other-rainforest-animals-for-kids/

Figure out what layer these animals live in:

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/multimedia/jewels

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids/species-profiles

Look at how lovely these animals are. Which are your favorites?

http://www.leslietaylor.net/gallery/animals/animal.htm

www.enchantedlearning.com - type in the name of the animal you are researching

Emergent Layer consist of the tops of the tallest trees, which are much higher than the average canopy height (ranging up to 270 feet or 81 m). It houses many birds (like the scarlet macaw), insects, and more.

Rainforest Canopy

Canopy - The rainforest canopy is composed of trees that grow
to heights between 100 - 150 feet. The canopy is home to a
large biodiversity of plant and animal life. Animals that inhabit
the rainforest canopy include Lemurs, Spider Monkeys, Sloths,
Toucans, Orangutans and Parrots. Some of these animals find
most or all of their food high in the trees of the canopy so that
they will rarely, if ever, need to go to the rainforest floor. The
canopy also acts as a reverse umbrella for the rainforest. It
traps moisture and humidity underneath the leaves of its trees
and also blocks out sunlight

UNDERSTORY
The understory is a dark, cool environment that is under the leaves but over the ground. Most of the understory of a rainforest has so little light that plant growth is limited. There are short, leafy, mostly non-flowering shrubs, small trees, ferns, and vines (lianas) that have adapted to filtered light and poor soil. Some of these plants include ferns, palms, philodendrons, and heliconias. Animals in the understory include insects (like beetles and bees), arachnids, snakes, lizards, and small mammals (like the kinkajou) that live on and in tree bark. Some birds (like antbirds) live and nest within tree recesses and eat the abundant insects. Some larger animals, like jaguars, spend a lot of time on branches in the understory, surveying the area, looking for prey.

Rainforest Understory - Animals

Blue-tailed iguana (also known as a skink)

http://srelherp.uga.edu/lizards/eumfas.htm

http://www.pcs.k12.va.us/trail/Blue-skink.htm

Coatimundi

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/coati/coati.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coati

Fruit Bat

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bat/Fruitbatcoloring.shtml

http://www.about-bats.com/fruit-bats.html

Green Tree Python

http://whozoo.org/Intro98/jennglaz/jennglaz21.htm

http://lllreptile.com/info/library/animal-care-sheets/snakes/-/green-tree-python/

Leaf Cutter Ants

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/ant/leafcutter.shtml

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/costa_rica/animals/leafcutter_ants.htm

Margay

http://www.agarman.dial.pipex.com/margay.htm

http://www.catsg.org/catsgportal/cat-website/catfolk/wiedi-01.htm

Red-eyed Tree Frog

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/amphibians/redeyedtreefrog.shtml

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/red-eyed-tree-frogs/

Kinkajou

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/kinkajou/Kinkajouprintout.shtml

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rnfrst_animal_page.htm

Spider Monkey

http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/www/schoolhouse/rainforest_library/animal_library/spider_monkey.htm

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/spider-monkey/

FOREST FLOOR
The floor of the forest is teeming with animal life, especially insects and arachnids (like tarantulas). The largest animals in the rainforest generally live here, including gorillas, anteaters, wild boars, tapirs, jaguars, and people. It is very dark with no sunlight. There are a lot of shrubs and no trees.

Rainforest Floor - ANIMALS

Jaguar

http://www.rainforestanimals.net/rainforestanimal/jaguar.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/cats/jaguar/Jaguarprintout.shtml

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