Rainforest Animals
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What are Nocturnal Predators?
What are Nocturnal Predators? Nature is full of a variety of creatures, each of which has adapted perfectly to its environment. There are many fascinating creatures among this vast range –…
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Rainforest Lemurs And Other Prosimians
Prosimians are “primitive” primates that once ranged the world over—at least in the tropical rain forests—until monkeys and apes came along and out-competed them. Now most prosimians, in the form…
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Rain Forest Eagles
The world’s rain forests are home to many species of raptors, or birds of prey, including hawks, owls and eagles. These predatory birds feed on a variety of prey, depending…
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Rainforest Primates: Monkeys, Apes and Lemurs
Most rain forests have a number of primate species climbing through the forest canopy or foraging on the forest floor. Primates are apes—chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, gibbons and, yes, humans—as well…
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Rain Forest Food Web Top Predators
The relationships among species in an ecosystem have often been described as a “food chain” in which the larger animals eat the smaller. But the food-chain image is a two-dimension…
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Large Snake Of The Rainforest
In the contest over which is the world’s longest snake, South America’s green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) and the two largest pythons of Africa and Asia are neck-and-neck-and-neck. All three species…
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Crocodiles And Alligators Of The Rainforest
The black caiman of the Amazon rainforest is often mistaken for an alligator, which it closely resembles. However, true alligators only live in two places in the world, and neither…
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