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Forest floor
In the rain forest, not much light reaches the forest floor.
Animals that live there can use the dark to sneak up on
their prey without being seen. In temperate forests,
more light makes it through the canopy. Animals and
plants can enjoy soaking up the Sun on the forest floor.
WHAT’S WHAT Rain forest
A Elephant Forest Below the dense canopy,
elephants make
paths by pulling the dark forest floor is
down trees. littered with fallen fruit
and leaves. As they rot,
B Leopard This big their nutrients are
cat drags its prey returned to the soil.
up trees to eat A
it undisturbed.
C Giant African
millipede This
creature’s body
armor and
bad smell keep C
predators away.
D Madagascan
hissing cockroach B
Males have horns
and use them to
ram other males.
E Army ants These
insects are nearly F
blind, but detect D
prey by sensing
movement.
F Buttress roots
These wide roots
anchor the tree to
the forest floor.
E
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