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