This food chain is a little longer.
Simple rainforest food chain examples.
Another rainforest food chain.
For example you could write the food chain for a lion like this.
Examples of these in the amazon rainforest are the macaws monkeys agouti sloths and toucans.
This is an example food chain that fits with the species of the amazon rainforest.
The jaguar can also eat the tapir and the agouti.
Scientists sometimes describe this dependence using a food chain or a food web.
Dirt plants beetles frogs and snakes.
Here s another example of a different food chain.
Rainforest food chain interdependence.
The producers the trees shrubs bromeliads and other plants.
Food chain a food chain describes how different organisms eat each other starting out with a plant and ending with an animal.
Primary consumers these are the organisms or animals that eat the producer i e.
In an ecosystem plants and animals all rely on each other to live.
The key to understanding the rainforest food chain is the concept of interdependence.
Food chain of the amazon rainforest.
The first example had 5 levels.
The primary consumers the macaws monkeys agouti tapir butterflies sloths toucans.
The toucan at the bottom consumes the fruit produced by the tree which is a green plant and primary producer.
That s the whole idea that makes the food web of the rainforest a bit less complicated.
The first animal to eat in the food chain.
A food web is a bit more complicated as it is made up of several networking food chains.
Below we have a food web in which a golden lion tamarin a type of monkey can be eaten by either the boa constrictor or the jaguar.