Carnivores
The carnivores are important to the food web because they eat other animals. Many carnivores eat herbivores and if there warent any carnivores there wouldnt be any plants because the Herbivores eat plants.


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Name: Caecilian
Description: Amphibians, they are orange, black and they're 4 to 50 inches.
Habitat: Tropical rainforests often near streams. In soil and litter of forests. Wide range including Central and much of South America, Central Africa, South China, India, and Southern Philippines.
Diet: Insects, Worms, and insect larvae.

Name: Pac Man Frog
Description: Lives 5 to 6 years, green, red, brown,black, and tan, and it has a huge mouth.
Habitat: Tropical forests in Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Brazil. Rain forest floor. Less moist habitats as well.
Diet: Anything that they can get theire mouths on. Other frogs, small birds, insects, lizards, small rodents, and beetles.

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http://www.animalsoftherainforest.org/frames.htm
Name: Amazon River Dolphin " Boto "
Description: They can be pink or gray, they are 9 feet long and 190-285 pounds.
Habitat: South America in the Amazon and Orinoco river systems.
Diet: Crabs, shrimp, and other fish especially piranha & catfish
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