"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

-Helen Keller

Tiki the Toucan's

Amazon Rainforest

Adventure

One sunny day in the Amazon Rainforest, Tiki the Toucan woke up in her in her Brazil nut tree.   Tiki said good morning to her neighbor, Manny the Macaw, as he cracked open a Brazil nut, one of his favorite breakfasts.    

 After he cracked open the nut shell some of the seeds inside dropped to the forest floor. The seeds that dropped could later become small Brazil nut trees. This is an example of a mutualistic relationship.

Next to her was her friend Harold the Hummingbird, who drank some nectar from an orchid flower growing on the branch next to her nest.  When Harold drank the nectar he became covered in the orchids pollen dust, and as he traveled to other orchid flowers he spread the pollen dust. This helps the orchid to grow new flowers.  Both of the organisms benefit from this interaction which makes it a mutualistic relationship.

Fun Fact:

The Amazon Rainforest is a biome which  is a tropical woodland with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches (254 centimeters) and marked by lofty broad-leaved evergreen trees forming a continuous canopy, and mild to warm temperatures.  A biome is a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat. Some of the abiotic factors in this ecosystem are sunlight, air temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, etc..  Some biotic factors are other organisms, predators, bacteria, etc.

Tiki also saw a tree frog use its long tongue to catch a fly, and then a snake came along and ate the tree frog.  Tiki knows that these are examples of predator prey relationships in the rainforest.

Everything seemed to be going like a typical day in the rainforest, until suddenly a loud noise struck the air!  Tiki flew up from her home to see humans cutting down many trees in the distance. She knew she had to do something to stop this madness!

She flew around to visit all of her friends and told them to meet her at the giant lily pad pond.  Tiki told all of her friends of what she saw going on in the distance.  “Friends!” Tiki announced, “The humans have come to our part of the forest, and are cutting down our Brazil nut, cacoca, and banana trees! We must do something to stop them!”  They all agreed that they must stop the humans from ruining their home. Tiki made a plan to make sure that the humans would not cut down anymore trees and destroy their home .

She told  Gary the Giant Otter and Axel the Amazon River Dolphin to swim up underneath the boats carrying the logs and flip them over, making sure the logs sink to the bottom of the river.