Plants and Plant Eaters

In its rainforest home, the sloth can spend its whole day chewing leaves and moving so rarely that plants actually grow on its fur. From giant trees with buttress roots to 'air plants' that bloom suspended from trees, Plants and Planteaters describes the flowers, fruits and seeds of the rainforest that sustain this ecosystem's many fascinating insects, birds, monkeys and mammals. - food from the forest - climbers and perchers - beautiful butterflies - feathered pollinators - feathered fruit-eaters - hanging in the trees - browsers big and small - forest acrobats