Animals Of Forest Floor

The forest floor is the lowest layer where it is dark hot and damp.

Animals of forest floor. The forest floor is generally dark and damp and is home to many plants insects amphibians spiders small mammals and lizards. Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight. In each layer live different animals. The forest floor is the lowest layer where it is dark hot and damp.

A rainforest is a magical place thriving with all manner of plants and animals. The understory layer could be described as the middle part of the flora system. Large leafed shrubs and saplings new trees grow in the patches of sunlight. Many times we only see the ones flying through the air or that are big enough to catch our attention but there is a whole group of animals that live in the rainforest floor.

These include the colourful poison arrow frogs the yellow gold phyllobates terribilis or golden poison frog the horned toad the amazonian leaf toad the mottled forest frog and the tree frog. Dead leaves fallen from the plants in the layers above cover the ground. The most diverse and abundant animals on the rainforest floor are invertebrates. A forest is just like a building with four floors or so called layers.

This is a forest habitat for birds lizards. Only two per cent of sunlight gets through the thick canopy trees and understorey plants to reach the forest floor. The tropical rainforest animals fauna live in different layers strata of the jungles. Amphibians are another common animal on the forest floor.