Animals In The Rainforest And Their Adaptations
Two-toed sloths are nocturnal which enables them to avoid diurnal or active during the day predators by sleeping during the day.
Animals in the rainforest and their adaptations. The sloth uses camouflage and moves very slowly to make it difficult for predators to spot. Sloths have adapted to the rainforest ecosystem in several ways. Several birds have strong or longer beaks.
Animals that inhabit the rainforest canopy include Lemurs Spider Monkeys Sloths Toucans Orangutans and Parrots. Camouflaging is used by animals and is the act of adapting and blending in with their surroundings. Despite the rich vegetation and animal life found in the rainforest many adaptations have had to occur to allow these species to remain alive.
The sloth also has allege growing on it this helps it blend in with the forest. Big cats like jaguars have their distinctive light brown and black spots to mimic the appearance of light through the branches and helping them hide even in light. In the rainforest it rains anywhere from 50-260 inches per year which means that the trees and plants need to be able to survive with excess water.
Spider monkeys have also adapted to live at the top of the canopy and they use their long arms to swing from branch to branch. Despite covering only between 6 and 7 of the worlds land surface rainforests are home to more than half of all the worlds animal and plant species. The spider monkey has long strong limbs to help it to climb through the rainforest trees.
Such as the Okapi the strips on their legs help them follow their mother through the opaque forest as well as camouflages them from predators. Sloths have adapted to the rainforest by moving into the trees. Animals depend on their physical structure to help them find and eat food to build shelters to protect from predators and to reproduce.
The adaptation of animals and plants to their environment is a series of varied biological processes with varying purposes but the general purpose is the continued survival of the species. Although three-toed sloths are both diurnal and nocturnal theyre largely inactive during the day. Living high in the canopy these slow-moving mammals mainly eat tree leaves.