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