The Understorey

     The shrubs far beneath the canopy compose the fourth strata of the rainforest. Often sparsely populated (except in treefall gaps), many of the plants found here are grazed on by deer, peccary, tapir and other terrestrial herbivores.

Understorey plants.	Large (~10 cm.) caterpillar found on a shrub.
Small caterpillar and dead, fungus encrusted moth.	Another caterpillar.
White-lined sackwing bat in a tree cavity.	Tarantula on leaf.
Vine snake.	Detail of vine snake.
Head of lizard on a tree trunk.	Green frog on a leaf.