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Hoatzin
A hoatzin in a thicket along an Amazonian backwater can make a meal of leaves with the help of microbes. Fermentation starts in its enlarged crop before the food moves farther through the gut. Young hoatzins have claws on their wings that help them climb through branches above the water.
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Honduran white bat
A Honduran white bat turns a broad heliconia leaf into a shelter. The bats cut along the veins so the sides fold down around the main rib. A small group can roost together beneath the folded leaf, out of sight from above.
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Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni
A sleeping Fleischmann’s glass frog becomes harder to see against a leaf. It withdraws much of the red blood from circulation and holds the cells in its liver. The rest of the body then transmits more light, making the frog’s outline less conspicuous where it rests.
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Wallace's flying frog
Wallace’s flying frog spreads its long, webbed toes as it leaves a high perch. The webbing and loose skin along the limbs help slow the fall and let the frog glide. In Southeast Asian forests, it can move between perches without climbing down first.
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Chrysopelea paradisi
A paradise flying snake launches from a perch and flattens its body as it falls. It makes side-to-side waves in the air. That movement helps keep it stable as it glides to another part of the canopy without wings.
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Draco sumatranus
A Sumatran flying dragon opens flaps of skin supported by elongated ribs. Spread wide, the flaps help the lizard glide between trees. Once it lands, the membranes fold against its sides for climbing.
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Emerald tree boa
An emerald tree boa spends the daylight hours draped across a branch, often with its head resting in the middle of its coils. A gripping tail helps it hold its place. At night it can move through the branches or wait for prey without coming down to the forest floor.
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Oriental pied hornbill
A female oriental pied hornbill seals herself inside a tree cavity to raise her brood. A slit stays open so the male can pass food through. In forests where hollow trees are scarce, that unusual arrangement depends on finding a cavity before she can settle in.
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Bornean orangutan
A Bornean orangutan bends and weaves branches into a sleeping platform. Leaves can pad the nest, and some orangutans weave branches together from more than one tree. A place to sleep can take shape where there was only a gap between branches before.
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Vogelkop bowerbird
A male Vogelkop bowerbird builds a twig shelter and decorates the clearing in front with flowers and other objects. Females visit and can compare his display with others nearby. The twig hut in the photo is a courtship site, while the female builds a separate nest for her young.
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Southern cassowary
A southern cassowary swallows rainforest fruit whole and passes the seeds in its droppings. Its broad diet and movement let it carry seeds away from the trees that produced them. Some of the bigger seeds suit a bird with a gape wide enough to swallow fruits that smaller birds leave behind.
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Brown-throated sloth
A brown-throated sloth spends so much time in the canopy that its fur supports its own tiny community. Algae can tint the coat green, and certain moths spend much of their lives on a sloth. It is a striking example of a rainforest animal doubling as a habitat.
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Strawberry poison dart frog
A mother strawberry poison dart frog carries tadpoles up from the forest floor. She leaves them in little pools of water held by plants such as bromeliads, then returns to lay unfertilized eggs for them to eat. A single leaf cup becomes both nursery and feeding station.
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Common Surinam toad
A female common Surinam toad carries her eggs in pockets that form in the skin of her back. The young develop there and emerge as small toads. In the quiet waters this frog favors, that means the next generation gets past its tadpole stage while still with its mother.
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Agalychnis callidryas
Red-eyed tree frogs lay eggs on leaves above water. Embryos can hatch ahead of schedule when vibrations signal an attack, dropping into the pond below. The trick depends on sensing a threat through the egg and making an escape before the clutch is eaten.
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Amazon river dolphin
An Amazon river dolphin can enter flooded forest when rivers rise over their banks. Its flexible neck helps it maneuver around submerged obstacles as it searches for fish. The seasonal flood turns spaces between tree trunks into feeding ground.
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Plumed basilisk
A plumed basilisk can sprint across the surface of water to escape. Its long toes spread on impact, and each quick step creates an air pocket behind the foot. Pulling the foot back out before that pocket closes helps the lizard stay on top for a short run.
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Atta cephalotes
The pieces of leaves that Atta cephalotes leafcutter ants carry home are raw material for a fungus garden. Workers cut up and prepare the leaves in the nest so the fungus can grow. The colony then feeds on what it cultivates.
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Eciton burchellii
An Eciton burchellii army-ant colony can turn the workers’ own bodies into a temporary nest. The ants link up to form a living shelter called a bivouac around the queen and brood. When the colony moves, the shelter comes apart and the workers set out together again.
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Cephalotes atratus
A falling canopy ant can steer itself back to its tree trunk. The workers of Cephalotes atratus steer the descent with their legs and land rear first against the bark. A successful glide lets the ant stay in its part of the forest instead of ending up on the ground.
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Harpy eagle
A harpy eagle can take sloths and monkeys from rainforest trees. Its short, broad wings help it fly through the forest and its strong feet let it seize prey among the branches. A sloth high in the canopy can still be within an eagle’s reach.
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