RAINFOREST BY OTIS AND HARRISON KINKAJOU Their prey

RAINFOREST BY OTIS AND HARRISON

KINKAJOU • Their prey is insects, birds, and small mammals. • Predators to the kinkajou are people, big cats and birds of prey. • sharp claws help them to climb trees and their long tail to hang from tree to tree for their grip. Kinkajous' teeth are good for eating big food and ripping apart its food. • behavioural • They are arboreal. Their long, prehensile tail and nimble, clawed fingers, are adaptations for life in the trees. Kinkajous can hang upside down while feeding, using their prehensile tail and hind legs for support while holding small fruits in a onehanded grasp.

TOUCAN • Structural • They have bright colours to camouflage into objects or plants. • They have four toes two facing forward for attacking and two facing backwards to grab onto tough plants or trees. • They have a long but light beak to reach fruitfood from high places. • Their bill is made up of the same stuff as our nails so it is light to carry around. • Behavioural • They defend other toucans when in small flocks. • They gather together to look like heaps of birds. • They nest in trees to keep eggs safe. • They eat fruit, insects and sometimes small birds or eggs. • They live in flocks of 6 for protection.

• Structural SPIDER MONKEY • They have tails to grab onto slippery or hard branches like hands. • They have long arms to allow them to swing by his arms beneath the tree branches. • Female spider monkeys can get up to 10 -15 kg. • Males can get up to 10 -15 kg. • behavioural • Spider monkeys also eat young leaves, flowers, aerial roots, sometimes bark and decaying wood, as well as honey. • A very I small part of the diet consists of insects, insect larvae and birds’ eggs. When feeding, they may hang like by their tails and reach out for food with their hands.

ANACONDA • Structural • The Anaconda has nostrils on the top of its head so it can breath while nearly fully underwater. • They have sharp teeth and strong muscles to help them catch and squeeze their prey and eat them whole, anacondas take two weeks to digest their meal. • Anacondas have stretchy jaws to swallow their prey whole. • Anacondas can get up to 8. 8 m tall it weighs approximately 227 kg or above and measures 30 cm in width. • Behavioural • They live in swamps and slow-moving streams, but mainly in tropical rainforests, this helps them strike from underwater to catch their prey.

AMAZON MANATEE • • Structural They have lots of blubber to keep them warm They have the ability to breathe underwater with oxygen. A resting manatee can remain submerged for up to 15 minutes, but while swimming, it must surface every three or four minutes. Behavioural Manatees are primarily herbivores. They feed on a wide variety of submerged, emergent, floating, and shoreline vegetation. Manatees in Florida feed on more than 60 species of plants including turtle grass, manatee grass, shoal grass, mangrove leaves, various algae, water hyacinth, acorns, and hydrilla. manatees are found in shallow, slow-moving rivers, bays, estuaries and coastal water ecosystems of the south-eastern United States

VENUS FLYTRAP • Structural • The teeth lace together when an insect is trapped by the plant. • Petiole The two leaf parts of a Venus fly-trap, the leaf blade and leaf base, are joined together by a small stalk called the petiole. • They have many sensitive trigger hairs. • The Venus Flytrap attracts insects to it by its bright colour and scent. • Behavioural • When anything touches these hairs enough to bend them, the two lobes of the leaves snap shut trapping whatever is inside. The trap will shut in less than a second.

ORCHID FLOWER • Structural • Their large roots enable the orchid to absorb water and nutrients. • Orchids do not have classic root. They have rhizome, tuber or aerial roots. • Orchids can live on the ground (terrestrial forms), attached to woody plants (epiphytic types) or under the ground. • Behavioural • Orchids have an extra root system, they can store large quantities of water for use during dry periods. Bromeliads are another flower species found in the Amazon rainforest. • Flower of orchid can survive from few hours to 6 months, depending on the species.

BROMELIADS • Structural • They have adapted to life in the rainforest by having their roots in the ground and climbing high into the tree canopy to reach available sunlight. • The leaves of bromeliads are covered in small millimetre hairs which catch water droplets. • The water collected from the hairs run down the leaves into a small pond which is formed by the leaves tightly overlapping. This is a common feature of bromeliads, the pool also attracts small insects and animals who drink the water. Some die which provides nutrients to the plant. • behavioural • Some bromeliads have also developed an adaptation known as the tank habit, which involves them forming a tightly bound structure with their leaves that helps to capture water and nutrients in the absence of a welldeveloped root system. • The smoothness of the bark may also make it difficult for other plants to grow on their surface. Lianas are climbing woody vines that drape rainforest trees.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO LEARN ABOUT DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS? • Otis and Harrison- I think that it is important to know about different environments because it will help us to learn about the animals and the plants that live there and how they survive and adapt to that certain environments.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP ANIMALS/PLANTS THAT LIVE IN THE RAINFOREST? • Otis and Harrison- what I think we can do is to stop cutting down trees in the rainforest because it hurts/destroys animals home that live in or on the tree.

WHAT FUTURE ADAPTATIONS DO WE THINK THAT THE ANIMALS AND PLANTS WILL HAVE. • Kinkajou- might have the ability to live on ground and trees. • Spider monkey – might have the courage to eat bigger/stronger animals. • Venus flytrap- might have the courage to eat more small insects then flies. • Bromeliads- might have the ability to survive in colder environments.

FOOD CHAIN OF A ANACONDA

GLOSSARY • Arboreal-(chiefly of animals) living in trees. • Camouflage-to blend in to other objects. • Decaying-to decline in excellence, prosperity, health

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