Page 1 - 2.Tropical Rainforest

SAI International School

Subject- Biology, Class-VII
Topic- Weather, Climate and Animal Adaptations
Subtopic- Tropical Rainforest
Lesson Notes
TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
• The tropical rainforests are dense warm and wet. There plenty of vegetation and various
types of animals are found.
• To avoid competition for food, the animals confine themselves to different layers of the
forest.

• The different layers of the forest are-
Layers Flora Fauna
Emergent (top Tall trees Eagles, monkey, bats, some insects

layer)
Canopy Dense layer of trees Sloths, snakes, lizards, insects and
birds(toucan)
Understory Leafy herbaceous plants Jaguars, frogs, leopards
Forest floor Almost no vegetation Anteaters, snakes, mice and insects.

ADAPTIVE FEATURES OF ANIMALS LIVING IN TROPICAL RAINFOREST
A. LION-TAILED MACAQUE-
DO YOU KNOW!
• It spends most of its time on branches of trees
The Lion-tailed Macaque is listed
and is adapted to grasp the branches with its
as ‘Endangered’ in the IUCN Red
hands and long muscular tail. Such animals are
List, with less than 4000
called arboreal animal.
individuals left in the wild.
• They feed on fruits, seeds, flowers, leaves and
some insects.
• They have a characteristic mane around the face.
B. RED-EYED TREE FROG-

• They have bright green body with pale-yellow DO YOU KNOW!
stripes which helps in camouflaging with the leaf. Red-eyed tree frogs have
• Their feet have suction cups on the toes to stick to three eyelids on each eye!
the trees.
• Their eyes are red and bulging which scares away potential predators.
• They are nocturnal animals-sleeps during the day time.
C. TOUCAN-

• The toucan lives on the upper layers of trees.
• They have big, strong and sharp beak to squash many kinds of nuts berries.