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