Carnivores

By Nathan P.

Pictures from www.animalsoftherainforest.com

Carnivores keep the world from getting overpopulated

"Anaconda"
Eunectes murinus gigas

Photo copyright Erwin and Peggy Bauer/Bruce Coleman, Inc., Courtesy Ron Kalasinskas
Name: Anaconda
Description: Their constrictors, they can get as wide as a telephonepole, they can compress their ribcage to fit through verry tight spots, and they can grow to be 9 meters long.
Habitat: The Amazon Rainforest floor, trees, and rivers.
Diet: They eat small mamals, tapirs, capybera, and caiman.

Name: Discus
Description: Their flat, one of the most popular aquarium fish, small, andverry colorful.
.Habitat: The Rivers of South America.
Diet: They eat small crestaceans, and micro organisms.

"Discus"
Symphysodon discus
Photo courtesy/copyright
Oliver Lucanus <http://www.belowwater.com>


"Army Ants on the move"
Eciton burchelli

Image courtesy and © James L. Castner
"Army Ant"
Eciton burchelli

Image courtesy and © James L. Castner


Name: .Army Ant
Description: Their small, have a verry wide jaw, and their verry ferocious.
Habitat: Rain forest floor.
Diet: They eat small mamals, grasshoppers, wasps, and anything in its path.
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