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play an important role in the rainforest in the foodchain.
A Carnivore is an animal who eats other animals. There
are many different species of carnivores that live in the
rainforest. They are at the top of the foodchain. All
pictures on this site are from http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/ |
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Jaguar |
| Description:
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A Jaguar can be in two colors,
one is a jaguar like the one on the left and the
other is a black jaguar.Jaguars are getting
closer to being an endangered species because
their habitat is being destroyed and poaching. A
jaguars tail is usually 6 feet long. Male jaguars
can weigh up to 250 pounds and females can weigh
up to 150 pounds. They can grow up to 73 inches
in length. Jaguars are rarely ever seen in the
rainforest. |
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A Jaguar lives in Central and
South America. It likes dense tropical forests,
swamps, and open country. It also likes
understory layers of the rainforest. |
| Diet:
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It eats grown animals such as
peccaries, capybara, sloth, tapir, deer, cattle,
fish, frogs, turtles, small alligators, and
monkeys A jaguar loves to eat meat and it will
almost always eat anything it can find. |
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Puma |
| Description:
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Full grown pumas can
be up to 5 feet long not including the length of
their tail. Pumas can also leap up to 15 feet.
Baby Pumas are blind when they are born. Adult
pumas can be either a grayish, yellowish, or
reddish color.Pumas are the second largest cat
that lives in America. Pumas rarely kill their
prey by claws, usually the kill their prey by
breaking its neck. There are 2-4 pumas in a
litter. A pumas hair is very short and soft and
they can carry up to six times their body weight
on their backs. |
| Habitat: |
Pumas live in Parts
of North America, Central America, and South
America. They like a variety of environments
including dry, wet, and rainforests. |
| Diet:
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Pumas like to eat
Deer,Beavers,Porcupines, and monkeys. |
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Ocelot |
| Description:
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Ocelots can grow to
be 30-41 inches long and weigh up to 15-30 lbs.
No two ocelots ever look alike, they all have
different patterns of their fur. Ocelot fur is in
high demand and is considered valuable. Ocelots
are very unique because they can breed in any
season or temperature and they only mate during
the night. Male and female ocelots do not hunt
together. One or two baby ocelots are born each
year. |
| Habitat: |
Ocelots live in
forest and bushlands ranging from Texas to South
America. They also like understory layer of
rainforest. |
| Diet:
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Ocelots eat agoutis,
pacas, peccaries, birds, rodents, and small
mammals. |
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