Herbivores

The herbivor is one of the most inportint kind of animal. If all the herbivores died the food chane will fall apart. The carnivors would not have enuf food.Then the scavengers would eat the carnivors .Then the scavengers would die.


White faced capuchin"
Cebus capucinus
Photo courtesy/copyright Philip Greenspun
Name: Capuchin Monkey
Description: Small, broun and white fur
Habitat: Amizon rainforest
Diet: Plants and trees
Predators: Eagles, jaguars and other big birds

Name: Paca
Description: Broun with white psotes
Habitat: Amizon rainforest
Diet: All fruits except for citrus
Predators: Many big animals and huntres who hunt them with dogs

Paca"
Agouti paca
Photo courtesy/copyright The Belize Zoo

"Hawk Moth Caterpillar" (Costa Rican Rainforest)
Xylophanes crotonis
Photo courtesy/copyright
Dan Janzen
Name: Hawk/sphinkx mouth
Description: lite green with green eyes
Habitat: Everywre
Diet: variety of plants
Predators: Mainly bats, birds and lizerds
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