Food Chain In The Rainforest Facts

The activity below helps you to understand what animals in the African rainforest eat.

Food chain in the rainforest facts. Birds eat seeds nektar and fruit Tree snakes eat birds and their eggs. Each link in a food chain is important. Other organisms eat other living things as food to get their energy.

The first animal to eat in the food chain. Although humans have done much to harm rain forest food chains they depend on them too. In the rainforest there are many many different types of plants and animals.

Each plant or animal in the food chain eats the one below it and is eaten by the one above it. It is important that humans start working to protect Earths rain forests. The Primary Producers of this forest are the plants that use their chlorophyll to create food for their own growth as well for the animals.

They live exclusively in the Amazon Rainforest in Central and South America. A food chain shows how living things get their food in their habitat where they live. Some examples of producers are durian bengal bamboo and rainforest leaves which are eaten by a first level consumer like orangutans Jambu.

Bats eat fruits from trees a kookaburra can eat a small bat an eagle can eat a kookaburra. 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. When something happens to one link it affects the entire chain.

You will be creating your own Rainforest food chains using the different living things you find in Oscars. Here is an example of a common food web found in tropical rainforests. The amazon rainforest in south america is so big that if it were a country it would be the ninth biggest in the world.