Food Chain Rainforest Animals

Secondary consumers These are the organisms or animals that eat the primary consumer.

Food chain rainforest animals. Food to the animal that eats it. These organisms are bacteria fungi and certain types of. Many rainforest birds such as most parrots and cockatoos are herbivores and dont eat insects.

The larger animals eat the smaller animals. In any given food chain all the species of plants and animals are dependent on each other such that the repercussions of the extinction of a single species are not just felt on the food chain but are felt on the entire food web. Deforestation is already a problem in the rainforest.

Level 1 - flowers fruits larvae spiders leaves plankton insects and dead plant and animal matter. Links higher up in the food chain rely on the lower links. Each plant or animal in the food chain eats the one below it and is eaten by the one above it.

This resource encourages children to construct and interpret a variety of food chains identifying. A food chain tells you which animals rely on other animals for food. Examples of these in the Amazon Rainforest are the macaws monkeys agouti sloths and toucans.

A network of many food chains is called a food web. 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. Primary consumers -These are the organisms or animals that eat the producer ie.

Decomposers or detrivores also are part of this food chain. The environment is getting smaller and smaller so the animals are getting closer and closer together creating a. Food chains in the rainforest diagrams.