Food Webs in a Cloud Forest

by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn

By Rebecca Hogue Wojahn and Donald Wojahn

Part of a 12-book series published by Lerner Books, 2009

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Based on the book…

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Africa: Explore the Regions

African Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Gallery

National Geographic Kids Creature Feature

Related Links on…

Cloud Forests and their Creatures

WARNING!The rest of this slideshow is not meant to clicked and viewed straight through.

Just like the book it is based on, YOU have to make the decisions about who eats what and who gets eaten! Click the links to follow a path through the cloud

forest.

Furthermore, these are not all the routes through this habitat’s food web. There are thousands more plants and animals that fit in, and many of the featured

animals will eat even more choices than are presented.

Finally, want to learn more about these animals? Check your library or search for them in these links:

Africa: Explore the Regions

African Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Gallery

National Geographic Kids Creature Feature

Have fun!

First, choose a tertiary consumer…(what’s that?)

A leopardAn African golden catA black mamba snakeA martial eagle

The leopard eats…(click one)

An eastern black-and-white colobusAn African golden cat cubA blue duikerAn okapiA honey badgerA giant forest hogSome speckled cockroachesA baby mountain gorilla

The African golden cat eats… (click one)

A rock hyraxA collared sunbirdA giant otter shrewA Ruwenzori toracoA honey badgerA blue duikerSome tropical house geckoesA baby highland mangabey

The black mamba snake eats… (click one)

Martial eagle eggsA baby highland mangabeyA rock hyraxRuwenzori toraco eggsAn eastern black-and-white colobusA tropical house geckoA blue duikerA strange-horned chameleon

The rock hyrax eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasA butterfly caterpillarEggs from a tropical house geckoFungusGreen mountain bambooLeaves and twigs from treesA speckled cockroach

The martial eagle eats… (click one)

A rock hyraxA collared sunbirdAn eastern black-and-white colobusA strange-horned chameleonA blue duikerA honey badgerA baby highland mangabeyAn okapi

The collared sunbird eats… (click one)

Nectar from flowers in the treesA butterfly caterpillarA speckled cockroach

The speckled cockroach eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasA dead swallowtail butterflyRotten fruit and leaves from the treesA termite nestMushrooms and other fungusesA dead chimpanzeeDead green mountain bamboo

The giant forest hog eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasFungusGreen mountain bambooLeaves and fruits from the trees

The mountain gorilla eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasFungusGreen mountain bambooLeaves and fruits from the trees

Fungus eats… (click one)

A termite nestA dead African golden cat Wilted impatiens and begoniasA dead leopardRotten leaves and fruits from the treesDead green mountain bambooA dead martial eagleA dead chimpanzee

Impatiens and begonias eat nutrients in the soil from…

(click one) TermitesA dead Ruwenzori toracoA dead leopardA dead black mambaA dead collared sunbirdA dead tropical house geckoA dead martial eagle

The okapi eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasFungusGreen mountain bambooLeaves and fruits from the trees

The highland mangabey eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasA butterfly caterpillarA tropical house gecko eggsFungusGreen mountain bambooLeaves and fruits from the treesA speckled cockroach

The butterflies eat… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasLeaves and fruits from the trees

The strange-horned chameleon eats…

(click one) A butterfly caterpillarA speckled cockroachTermites

The eastern black-and-white colobus monkey eats…

(click one) Impatiens and begoniasFungusGreen mountain bambooLeaves and fruits from the trees

Speckled cockroachesA dead mountain gorillaA dead leopardA dead giant forest hogA dead African golden cat An eastern black-and-white colobusA dead honey badgerA dead okapi

Trees eat nutrients in the soil from… (click one)

The honey badger eats… (click one)

Mushrooms and other fungusA speckled cockroachTermitesA giant otter shrewA collared sunbirdA black mambaA butterflyA rock hyrax

The tropical house gecko eats… (click one)

A butterflyTermitesA speckled cockroach

The chimpanzee eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasLeaves and fruits from the treesTermitesA giant forest hog pigletA collared sunbirdA blue duiker

The termites eat… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasFungusLeaves and fruits from the treesGreen mountain bamboo

The Ruwenzori turaco eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasLeaves and fruits from the treesA butterflyGreen mountain bambooTermitesA speckled cockroach

The giant otter shrew eats… (click one)

A butterflyTermitesA speckled cockroach

The green mountain bamboo gets nutrients from the soil from…

(click one) TermitesA dead martial eagleA dead leopardA dead chimpanzeeA dead African golden cat A dead strange-horned chameleonA dead black mambaA dead giant forest hog

The blue duiker eats… (click one)

Impatiens and begoniasLeaves and fruits from the treesA collared sunbirdRuwenzori toraco eggsA butterflyFungusA speckled cockroachGreen mountain bamboo

Tertiary Consumer

A tertiary consumer is an animal that hunts other animals for food and that has few natural enemies.

    Welcome to an African cloud forest! As you set off down the mountain path, all you see ahead is a thick tangle of vines and bamboo trees. But the cloud forest is full of life, from a collared sunbird hovering over some flowers to a leopard stalking a giant forest hog. Day and night in the cloud forest, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant to insect, and insect to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the cloud forest? Will you . . . Watch a fierce honey badger battle a dangerous snake? Slink along with an African golden cat as it tails its prey? Munch on some leaves with a family of mountain gorillas? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!

More About the Book…A Cloud Forest Food Chain : A Who-Eats-What Adventure in North America by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn & Donald Wojahn 

64 pages • Bibliography • Full-Color Photographs • Further Reading • Glossary • Index • Maps • Table of Contents • Websites

For Grades 3-5

More About the Series… Lerner Publications12-Book Series, Library Bound

ISBN-10: 0-8225-7494-2ISBN-13: 978-0-8225-7494-164 pages eachBibliography • Full-Color Photographs • Further Reading • Glossary • Index • Maps • Table of Contents • WebsitesGrades 3-5

An interactive, nonlinear nonfiction series about food webs in different habitats. After reading about an animal, you choose what it eats. Your choices weave a route through the habitat’s food web. But pay attention–you may end up where you never expected to be. And watch out for those dead ends!

Other books in the series: A Temperate Forest • The African Savanna • A South American Rain Forest • The Australian Outback • The Arctic Tundra • The Sonoran Desert • The Galapagos Islands • The Nile River • An Asian Mangrove Forest • An African Cloud Forest • A North American Estuary • A Coral Reef