Forest Floor Rainforest Animals

Also many of the largest rainforest animals are found on the forest floor.

Forest floor rainforest animals.

The tropical rainforest animals fauna live in different layers strata of the jungles. The canopy also acts as a reverse umbrella for the rainforest. Thus relatively larger animals of the tropical rainforest like the okapi the tapir the sumatran rhinoceros etc inhabit the forest floors of rainforests. Animals that inhabit the rainforest canopy include lemurs spider monkeys sloths toucans orangutans and parrots.

These include the colourful poison arrow frogs the yellow gold phyllobates terribilis or golden poison frog the horned toad the amazonian leaf toad the mottled forest frog and the tree frog. It feeds on worms and tiny creatures on the forest floor. South america tigers asia and the jaguar central and south america. The forest floor is generally dark and damp and is home to many plants insects amphibians spiders small mammals and lizards.

A large number of reptiles insects and amphibians also occur in this layer. This is a forest habitat for birds lizards snakes and large predatory cats. These roots can start 9m 30ft up the tree trunk and curve out along the surface of the ground. Most of the vegetation down here consists of fungi and other.

This wormlike reptile lives in burrows in the damp soil and rotting leaves. Of these are elephants in asia the tapir southeast asia and central and. Rainforest trees are so tall that they need enormous roots as support at the bottom. The most diverse and abundant animals on the rainforest floor are invertebrates.