Biomes: Rainforest

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Biomes Rainforest

• 1st Period

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Capuchin Monkey
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Capuchin Monkey

• The Capuchin Monkey usually lives in the amazon
  rainforest. They inhabit a large range in Brazil
  and other parts of Latin America. Capuchin
  monkeys are omnivorous so they feed on fruits,
  nuts and seeds as well as insects, spiders, bird
  eggs and small vertebrates. They may even feed on
  small vertebrates, such as lizards and bird
  chicks. Big cats like a cheetah for example feed
  on the capuchin monkey. Capuchins can jump up to
  nine feet (three meters), and they use this mode
  of transport to get from one tree to another.
  Remaining hidden among forest vegetation for most
  of the day, capuchin monkeys sleep on tree
  branches and descend to the ground only to find
  drinking water.

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Spider Monkey
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Spider Monkey

• Spider Monkeys live in tropical climates,
  specifically the evergreen forests of Central and
  South America. They can also be found as far
  north as Mexico. Thriving in the upper canopy,
  spider monkeys hunt with ease and without the
  competition of other primates. Spider monkeys are
  omnivorous more specifically they are categorized
  as fruigivorous because of their fruit and seed
  based diet. They also tend to feed on young
  leaves, flowers, aerial roots, occasionally bark
  and wood, honey, insects and bird eggs. Pumas,
  snakes, jaguars, ocelots, and eagles have all
  been known to eat these monkeys .Spider monkeys
  eat while hanging, climbing or moving. They lack
  an opposable thumb, which is not a less evolved
  trait, but rather a result of their environmental
  adaptation. This is due to the fact that they are
  accustomed to travel from tree to tree in their
  arboreal surroundings and the thumb is not highly
  needed.

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African Elephant
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African Elephant

• The African forest elephant lives in the
  equatorial forests of central and western Africa
  and are smaller and stockier than savanna
  elephants, only reaching about 8 feet tall
  instead of 13 feet. Their tusks are straight
  rather than curved so that they dont get caught
  in the underbrush and vines of the forest, and
  they use them for digging roots and stripping
  bark off trees. They are also used to defend
  itself from predators such as lions and to fight
  with other male African forest elephants during
  the mating season. They are smaller so they can
  move easier around the dense forests. The African
  forest elephant is a herbivore and commonly eats
  leaves, fruit, and bark. It eats a high portion
  of fruit and is sometimes the only disperser of
  some tree species. They are sometimes referred to
  as forest gardeners due to their significant
  role in seed dispersal and maintaining plant
  diversity.

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Bullet Ant
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Bullet Ant

• The Paraponera clavata, otherwise known as the
  bullet ant, is an ant native to humid
  lowland rainforests in Nicaragua and the extreme
  east portion of Honduras, south to Paraguay.
  Bullet Ants are known for their stings and the
  tremendous pain that arises from the multiple
  bites that it is able to deliver in only a few
  seconds. Some would say that being bit by a
  Bullet Ant is the equivalent of being shot one
  time, hence why these ants have been given their
  names. Bullet Ants eat the nectar of numerous
  plants and have the tendency to return the nectar
  to the nest where more ants will be able to feed.
  They also use their powerful stings to kill much
  larger animals. The main cause of death for
  Bullet Ants are phorid flies that attack only
  injured ants. Theses phorid flies are attracted
  by the scents of injured ants and are able react
  to an ants death within two to three minutes.
  Bullet Ants can be considered secondary consumers
  because of the powerful punch that they pack in
  each fastened bite, making them a much more
  dangerous threat to larger animals in the
  rainforest.

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Tamarin Monkey
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• The Emperor Tamarin is a small species of monkey
  founded in the forests of South America. The
  Emperor Tamarin was named because of it's elegant
  white mustache.  There are two subspecies of
  Emperor Tamarin found in the south west Amazon
  Basin. The bearded Emperor Tamarin inhabits the
  rain forests throughout Brazil and Peru, and the
  black chinned Emperor Tamarin that actually has
  no beard and is distributed throughout the
  rainforests of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia. The
  Tamarin usually eats plants, but it is also known
  for eating fruit, tree sap, insects like
  butterflies and spiders and small invertebrate
  like lizards and small tree frogs. The female
  tamarins can only see in three colors and the
  males can only see in two so they have advantages
  because they are able to decipher foods and other
  things that may be camouflaged. The tamarins
  weigh very little, therefore they are able to
  swiftly move through trees and branches while
  other heavier monkeys can not. And lastly, the
  have long nails that allow them to grab their
  prey easily. 

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Gliding Tree Frog
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Gliding Tree Frog

• Gliding tree frogs live in tropical and
  subtropical wetlands (some in Colombia, Costa
  Rica, Ecuador, and Panama) and swampy areas. Most
  of their time is spent in high trees, theyre
  nocturnal. They only go to the ground during
  mating season. They are carnivorous and eat
  things like crickets, flies, and moths. Things
  that eat them are snakes, birds, monkeys, and
  large rodents. Ways that it adapts are Its
  colors change from light (day) to dark (night)
  and their large webbed toes help them glide and
  move easier through their habitat (trees) and
  makes it easier for them to do things like
  searching for food. This species is equipped to
  live in the rainforest and outcompete its
  opponents because it is small, and its
  adaptations make is easier to hide from predators
  and easier for it to survive.

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Red Crab Spider
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Red Crab Spider

• Red Crab Spiders can be yellow, white, or pale
  green, depending on the color of the flower or
  leaf that they are trying to blend in to. To
  trap their prey, they use camouflage hunting
  techniques and instead of using a web, they use
  their front legs to catch their prey. (They use
  camouflage to acquire food and to avoid
  predators) Since they use camouflage and barely
  like to move around, it can be very difficult to
  spot a Red Crab Spider with a naked eye. They
  mainly eat insects and bees. The predators of
  this type of spider are birds, lizards, and
  shrews. The Red Crab Spider can be found in a
  number of locations including Africa, the Amazon
  Rainforest, the Arctic, Asia, Australia, China,
  Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Madagascar, the
  Mediterranean, North America, Russia, South
  America, and the United Kingdom.

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Slime Mold
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Slime Mold

• Slime molds are normally found on the forest
  floors of deciduous or tropical rainforest. Slime
  molds were once considered fungi, but unlike
  fungi, they can move. There are two types of
  slime molds plasmodia and cellular. They eat
  decayed vegetation, bacteria, fungi, and other
  slime molds. During good conditions, they live
  independently like an amoeba. But when conditions
  are poor, the individual cells gather together to
  form a single structure. Plasmodial slime molds
  and cellular slime molds reproduce by producing
  spores that are released when conditions are
  favorable, however, cellular slime molds remain
  individual cells with one nuclei.

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Howler Monkey
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• Howler Monkey's are the largest of all the New
  World monkeys and they are native to the tropical
  forests of Central and South America. Their diet
  consists mainly of leaves, fruits and nuts, such
  as the fig. The howler monkey has adapted to live
  and eat in this environment by having a long tail
  used either to hold themselves onto branches or
  to even pluck fruit. They also have have loud
  vocalizations, or "howls" used for territory
  protection and mating. The only danger that they
  need to watch out for are hunters and poachers.
  Otherwise they are safe at the top of their food
  chain, and at the top of their tree. 

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Macaranga
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Macaranga

• Macaranga Tanarius, found in South East Asian,
  Papua New Guinean, and east of Australian
  rainforest. It is a Pioneer plant that grows in
  or near coastal rainforests. It is a producer
  which has a mutual relationship with ants which
  attack herbivorous insects and either drive them
  away or feed on them. It is a shrub or bushy tree
  reaching 12 m and a stem diameter of 40 cm, a
  short and crooked grey brown bark, bumps and
  irregularities. Smooth branches and bluish grey
  with leaf scars and germinate seeds with no
  difficulties.