It acts as camouflage
It attracts insects the sloth eats
Sloths eat algae and bacteria
It cools them off
Abnormal
Strangler fig
Emergent
Equatorial tree
To attract animals
To store sugar to use later
For humans to eat
Forest floor and deep floor
Emergents and the sky
Canopy and forest floor
Emergents and canopy
They feed it to fungus, which ant larvae eat
They use it to build a nest
Ant larvae eat the leaves
Adult ants eat the leaves
Rainforests get between 0 and 50 inches of rain a year.
Carry them to pockets of water
All of the above
Lay eggs for tadpole food
Find pockets of water for them