Animals In The Rainforest Food Chain

It includes information about tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia and teaches children how the plants and animals found there rely on each other to survive.

Animals in the rainforest food chain. First Plants flowers fruit leaves plankton insects larvae spiders Second Plants insects and plankton eat frogs fish bag ties possums malicious most birds kangaroos and kangaroo Third that eat small animals. And while its easy to imagine rain forest birds eating spiders it is also true that at least one species of spider in the rainforest food web. The first animal to eat in the food chain.

Using a food chain diagram. The rainforest has thousands of different food chains. The Secondary Consumers the jaguar and boa constrictor.

As in any other. The first animal to eat in the food chain. These animals feed on the secondary consumers but dont have any predators of their own.

For example anacondas dont just eat birds. In most rain forests these central slots are held by the big cats - tigers leopards and jaguar the big snakes the big crocodiles and the largest birds of prey. A food chain in a grassland ecosystem may consist of grasses and other plants grasshoppers frogs snakes and hawks figure 83.

Examples of these in the Amazon Rainforest are the macaws monkeys agouti sloths and toucans. Level 1 - flowers fruits larvae spiders leaves plankton insects and dead plant and animal matter. The tropical rainforest animals in this group include capybaras tapirs deer monkeys squirrels grasshoppers etc.

Here are a few examples on food chains in australian tropical rainforests. They show how those animals are connected. On the bottom right there is an example of a food chain and a food web.