Primary consumer
Name: Stabilocius needlei
Body length: 40cm
Adaptations:
Structural:
- It has extremely short and light body and very long legs.
- It has extremely short and light body and very long legs.
- It has needle-like tips on its legs to pierce through the producer.
- It has wings to fly right above producer than land, piercing it through.
Behavioral:
- It lays approx 50 eggs which are covered with a substance that is bad-tasting to discourage predators from eating it.
- It lays approx 50 eggs which are covered with a substance that is bad-tasting to discourage predators from eating it.
- It able to camouflage and change colours according to its surrounding colour
- It sweats a lot through pores on the skin to lose heat in the hot rainforest
- It grows a hook when producer is killed to retrieve the producer from underground
Secondary consumer:
Name: Snaky Sucker
Nutrition: Carnivorous- feeds on spikilocious
Average life span: 7 years (3 years to mature)
Average length: 10m
Average breadth: 10cm
Average circumference: 40cm
Method of reproduction: The Snaky sucker lays eggs but does not take care of young. It reproduces at an average of twice in a lifetime, laying 5 eggs each time. The eggs are parasitic eggs.
Adaptations:
1. Its skin has the ability to absorb water and nutrients and is able to filter the water to make sure it does not absorb toxic waste. The skin is green with brown patches to camouflage when slithering through the huge diversity of undergrowth on the topsoil. The skin is also able to prevent water loss, which helps it to keep cool in high temperatures and prevent dehydration.
2. It has a streamlined body shape and smooth skin to slither quickly, overcoming dense undergrowth and extensively weathered soil.
3. The Snaky Sucker has sharp teeth which produces digestive juices to tear apart prey easily and digest the prey before swallowing. It also has a poison sting that protrudes out of mouth and secretes poison when pierced into body of prey. This sting is able to stretch out to 10m.
4. Finally, the Snaky Sucker has very good eyesight. It is able to spot movement of its prey from 10m away.
Detritivore:
Name: Pauropodius pincus
Appearance: 11cm long (body 7cm, pincers 4cm), 2cm wide, 0.5cm deep
Life span: 3 weeks
Reproduction: The Pauropodius pincus lays around 400eggs.
Adaptations:
The Pauropodius pincus has sharp pincers to further break down large decaying mass into smaller chunks for feeding and eyes which are adapted to see in low light/no light. The body of the Pauropodius pincus is brownish black, small, flat and has segments. It also has a hard exoskeleton. It has small and numerous legs with hair to enable movement. The hairs on its legs help the sense its environment. The Pauropodius pincus also lays many eggs to deal with its high death rate.