TROPICAL DRY

FOREST
Tropical dry forests are home to a wide variety of wildlife
including monkeys, deer, large cats, parrots, various rodents, and
ground dwelling birds.
Tropical dry forest, also called monsoon forest or tropical deciduous
forest, biome of any open woodland in tropical areas that
have a long dry season followed by a season of heavy
rainfall.
Well known places examples include the Caatinga and Chaco
regions in South America, the miombo forests in Africa, and
the dry forests of central India and Indochina in Asia
ANIMALS and their ADAPTATIONS
• TASMANIAN DEVIL - The
Tasmanian devil has a strong jaw
• CAYOTE (Mexico) - During the dry
to crush bones with, a wide snout,
season, a coyote eats Jaliscan cotton rat,
has a body of a hyena, and is very
then during the wet season it eats mangos
strong and intelligent. It feeds on
and papayas. Because coyotes each human
invertebrates. Also, it is a nocturnal
based foods, it is easy to increase the
species so it spends the day resting
population and save them from extinction
in the burrows, It has a strong
which is caused by deforestation.
sense of smell to sniff out prey.
• THICKET TINAMOU (costa rica) -
• YELLOW NAPED PARROT -
feeds on fruit, insects, searching for food in
 It eats seeds, nuts, berries. Some
small parties that attract attention by
have a rare mutation of their entire
crackling dry leaves as they feed. When it
body being turqoise instead the
is disturbed, it walks instead of flying
regular greed with yellow band
away.
across the back of the neck
 PLANTS and their
ADAPTATIONS
ACACIA TREES

IRON WOOD TREES

KAPOK TREE (CIEBA TREES)

 Seasonal leaf loss and high water concentration
Dense tall deciduous tress
CIEBA TREES
ACACIA TREES (KAPOK TREE)
Many acacia species obtain water sheds its leaves at the start of the dry
through long tap roots, which reach season. This reduces water loss
up to 60 feet underground to access through the respiratory pores (stoma)
groundwater. They have small on the leaf surface. Ceiba trees have
leaves which often have a thick green bark that continues to
waxy layer called a ​cuticle​, which photosynthesize, allowing them to
helps reduce evaporation. reduce water loss while maintaining
energy production. When young,
Ceiba trees produce spines to deter
.
herbivores .