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By: Dan Weed, Derek Trombley, Ryan McNiel, And Patrick DeGeorge The Amazon: • Is the world’s largest Tropical rain forest, covering the entire Amazon river basin (around 2 million square miles). • Has the most variety of species than anywhere in the world. • ¼ of all medicines come from the Amazon The Amazon has a dry season (JunNov.) and a wet season (Dec.-May); humid & hot all year long! Temp. in the rainforest stays at a steady 23.5 degrees Celsius The rainforest has an annual rainfall of 4 meters in every location of the rainforest. • No Predominant Plants! It’s too diverse! Layers -Emergent: top layer of trees -Upper canopy: where most animals live -Lower canopy: Little air movement, high humidity -Forest floor: less then 1 percent of the sunlight reaches this layer. Heliconia psittacorum Angel’s wings Monsteras Cattleya Maxima “Santa Maria” Pepper Cattleya Maxima Brazil Nut Tree Cercropia Chicle (chewing gum) Tree Fig Tree Kapok Tree Leafcutter ants Eats: Fungus (NOT LEAVES!!) Three-Toed Sloth Eats: Fruits and leaves Howler Monkey Eats: Flowers, fruits, and leaves Tapir Eats: Leaves and small branches Capybara Eats: Grasses, melons, and water plants Tarantula Eats: Insects, birds, mice, lizards frogs and other tarantulas Giant River Otter Eats: Fish, Caiman, and birds Ocelot Eats: Monkeys, rodents, reptiles, and fish Black Caiman Eats: Piranha and Capybara Giant Anteater Eats: Ants/Insects Golden Lion Tamarin Eats: Fruit, insects, spiders, lizards, frogs, and snakes Piranhas Eats: Seeds, insects, fish, and wounded animals Kinkajou Eats: Fruit, leaves, insects, bird’s eggs, birds, and frogs Toucan Eats: Fruit, seeds, insects, reptiles, and frogs ANACONDAS Eats: Caimans, fish, and birds HARPY EAGLE Eats: Monkeys, sloths, and other birds JAGUARS Eats: Tapirs, caimans, giant river otter, and fish Vegetation 3-Toed Sloth Harpy Eagle Vegetation Vegetation Vegetation Vegetation Leafcutter ants Tapir Howler Monkey Capybara Anteater Jaguar Ocelots Caiman Anaconda Anaconda Jaguar Food Web Harpy Eagle Jaguar Anaconda Giant River Otter Black Caiman Toucan Ocelot Golden Lion Tamarin Piranha Kinkajou Anteaters Howler Monkeys Tapirs Tarantula 3 Toed Sloth Leafcutter Ants Vegetation Capybara
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