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Cassowaries play an important role in the ecology of both the rainforest and bushland areas where they live, as they are vital in dispersing seeds in their native forests. They are frugivores which feed on the fruit of up to 238 different species of plants. Because they are able to eat larger fruits, they can therefore can disperse large rainforest fruits after the seeds have passed through their digestive system, which is gentle enough to allow the seeds to remain viable.
The cassowary has a wide range, so is also the only long distance means for dispersing large seeded fruits. The seeds are excreted into a pile of the cassowary's own dung, meaning the seeds have their own ready-made pile of fertiliser. The smell of the dung even helps to deter seed-eating predators such as the white-tailed rat. Of the hundreds of fruit-bearing species on which the cassowary feeds, between 70 and 100 of them appear to rely completely on the cassowary for dispersal.
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Where do cassowaries live in the wild?
Cassowaries live mainly in the rain forests. As cassowaries live on fallen fruit they spend a lot of time under trees where seeds the size of golfballs or larger are dropping from heights of up to 30 metres.
How does a cassowary get its food?
Cassowaries are frugivores, or fruit-eaters, and while they prefer fallen fruit, they also eat other things like insects, other birds, frogs and fish, small rodents, fungus, snails and flowers, and sometimes even carrion. Cassowaries find their food on the rainforest floor, eating the fruit that drops off native trees. This is also where they find their other foods, collecting them from the ground, using their sharp beaks. The cassowary's job is to evenly distribute the seeds of the fruit, as the seeds are passed through the digestive tract and are excreted out onto the ground.
How the niche of trees in a temperate rainforest and the niche of squirrels in the same rainforest interact?
Well the niche of a squirrel mostly depends on the niche of a temperate rainforest.Thetrees need water and sunlight to make a nut.Then the squirrel finds the nut and stores it for the winter.
Why do rainforest's produce forty percent of oxygen?
The rainforest is mostly trees and trees produce oxygen. So if there are a lot of trees like in the rainforest, there will be a ton of oxygen coming from the rainforest.
What rainforest has 2000124 trees in it?
the amazon rainforest
What do humans do to the rainforest?
They clear trees in the rainforest
Why does a rainforest frogs live in the rainforest?
The rainforest has many trees. A desert has few trees. So it's not surprising that tree frogs live in the rainforest.
What are tropical rainforest trees called?
trees
How many different kinds of trees are there in the Amazon rainforest?
There are about 250 different kinds of trees in the Amazon Rainforest
What is a rainforest made of?
Trees.
What plants are in a rainforest?
trees
Do oak trees have eggs and sperm?
No, Oak trees do not have eggs and sperm. Trees grow through seeds which fall from parent trees and they do not reproduce with mates.
