Animal Species:
#1: Giant Anteater
Habitat: River Basin, grasslands, known to hide in hollow logs.
Description: long snout, bushy tail, strong fore-claws, walks on knuckles to prevent claws from wear, long snout is sticky on the inside to prevent ants from climbing out again.
Dietary Needs: sucks ants up through forest floor leaf litter using long snout, scavengers low lying lands for grubs and bugs etc, smashes open ants nests with claws then sucks up bugs through snout.

Adaptation: Claws- used to smash open ants nest to provide its prey an open area for its Long, Sticky Snout- to suck up any grubs and bugs on forest floor, able to suck up through leaf litter.

#2: Green Poison Dart Frog
Habitat: Forest Understory, bushes, low trees/tree branches.
Description: Varies in colour depending on breed but is green, black and occasionally white speckled and patterned. Skin is highly toxic and can harm predators on contact, small and is known to mate during wet season.
Dietary Needs: Small spiders and other Insects.

Adaptation: Poisonous skin realises harmful toxins to predators on contact. It can make the animal very ill and its bright colour warns other animals of the Amazon that it is a highly toxic species.

#3: 3 Toed Sloth
Habitat: canopy, rarely seen in the emergents of the Amazon.
Description: One of the worlds slowest animals, long limbs and strong tail. Very furry and occasionally has moss or other fungai beginning to grow on its back and forearms, is recognisable because it has three toes
Dietary Needs: Eats small shoots, leaves, fruit (including the Ficus Fig Tree), often found eating in the same area as the orangutan and spider monkey.

Adaptation: Its extremely long limbs and strong tail provides the very slow moving sloth a stable hold in the trees whilst it reaches out and gathers fruit or shoots in the free hand. Its lengthy arms help it reach and glide from tree branch to tree branch.

	Created by daisy_cobcroft over 10 years ago

Geography Note on Study Notes for Rainforest Test, created by daisy_cobcroft on 24/07/2014.