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Answered by sejuu
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The first and most common animal adaptation in a tropical rainforest is camouflage. For an animal to successfully exhibit this adaptation, it needs not only to have a color that will help it blend into the environment but also a shape that is unrecognizable by its predator.

With the very dense vegetation and little amount of sunlight that can pass through the tree canopies, animals can easily hide in the rainforest. But instead of hiding, some animals resort to the adaptation called mimicry where they tend to look like something that is intended to be seen (and not hidden like camouflage)

Most of the animals that have reduced their diet are the bird species. The Toucans (Ramphastidae family) only consume fruits that other animal and even bird species cannot access. Along with this adaptation, their beak also had to become long and narrow to crack these fruits open.
Poison dart frogs (Family Dendrobatidae) come in very bright colors of yellow, red, green, and blue adorned with spots and swirl patterns. These bright colors are an indication to predators that they need to stay away or they will be poisoned. Interestingly though, some dart frogs are not at all poisonous but they remain unharmed because they look like their poisonous relatives.

Lobster moths also exhibit this adaptation by looking like the venomous scorpions during its larval stage. They have patterns in their wings which look like the eyes and such keep them unharmed.
In a tropical rainforest, the jaguar (Panthera onca), the world’s largest species of cat, tends to grow only less than six feet long and weigh just about 200 pounds. Such small built allows it to acquire the speed needed to hunt for food.
However, snakes are an exception to this rule. Snakes in tropical rainforests can grow larger than anywhere else in the world because they can fit in the spaces between trees and even underground. Tropical rainforest snakes can grow up to 20 to 30 feet long.

The bearded pig (Sus burbatus) is a dark brown pig with a beard and somewhat resembles an Airedale terrier. While normally active during the day, pigs of these species resort to nocturnality when they migrate within the tropical rainforest. When they do this, they usually travel in groups (called herds) in the forest floor.
 nocturnality provides a great advantage for food which seems to be nowhere during daytime (i.e., other nocturnal worms and mammals). Additionally, nocturnality also reduces competition as most predators hunt during the day.
spider monkeys (Genus Ateles)that have chosen to live at the tree canopies to avoid great competition in the under-story. These monkeys have developed tails capable of grasping that allow them to swing freely among trees. Sloths that live by hanging upside down from high branches of trees are also an example.

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Answered by Anonymous
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Explanation:

The first and most common

animal adaptation in a tropical rainforest is camouflage. For an animal

to successfully exhibit this adaptation, it needs not only to have a

color that will help it blend into the environment but also a shape that

is unrecognizable by its predator.

With the very dense

vegetation and little amount of sunlight that can pass through the tree

canopies, animals can easily hide in the rainforest. But instead of

hiding, some animals resort to the adaptation called mimicry where they

tend to look like something that is intended to be seen (and not hidden

like camouflage)

Most of the animals that have reduced their diet are the bird species. The Toucans (Ramphastidae

family) only consume fruits that other animal and even bird species

cannot access. Along with this adaptation, their beak also had to

become long and narrow to crack these fruits open.

Poison dart frogs (Family Dendrobatidae)

come in very bright colors of yellow, red, green, and blue adorned with

spots and swirl patterns. These bright colors are an indication to

predators that they need to stay away or they will be poisoned.

Interestingly though, some dart frogs are not at all poisonous but they

remain unharmed because they look like their poisonous relatives.

Lobster moths also exhibit

this adaptation by looking like the venomous scorpions during its larval

stage. They have patterns in their wings which look like the eyes and

such keep them unharmed.

In a tropical rainforest, the jaguar (Panthera onca),

the world’s largest species of cat, tends to grow only less than six

feet long and weigh just about 200 pounds. Such small built allows it

to acquire the speed needed to hunt for food.

However, snakes are an exception to this rule. Snakes in tropical

rainforests can grow larger than anywhere else in the world because they

can fit in the spaces between trees and even underground. Tropical

rainforest snakes can grow up to 20 to 30 feet long.

The bearded pig (Sus burbatus)

is a dark brown pig with a beard and somewhat resembles an Airedale

terrier. While normally active during the day, pigs of these species

resort to nocturnality when they migrate within the tropical rainforest.

When they do this, they usually travel in groups (called herds) in the

forest floor.

 nocturnality

provides a great advantage for food which seems to be nowhere during

daytime (i.e., other nocturnal worms and mammals). Additionally,

nocturnality also reduces competition as most predators hunt during the

day.

spider monkeys (Genus Ateles)that

have chosen to live at the tree canopies to avoid great competition in

the under-story. These monkeys have developed tails capable of grasping

that allow them to swing freely among trees. Sloths that live by

hanging upside down from high branches of trees are also an example.

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