The Valdivia Rainforest

Background Information
• Temperate Rainforest
• Average temperature: 10"
• Rainfall per year between 700 - 1500 mm
• Rare and unique collection of #ora and fauna
• Four mini forest ecosystems within
• Laurel Leafed Forests
• Patagonian Andean Forests
• Delicious Forests
• No$hern Patagonian Forests

Kodkod • All complex canopy layers

• Greyish - brown fur with spots
• Size of a small • Eat southern lapwing, austral thrush
house cat • Adaptations:
• Life span: • Arboreal and Terrestrial
11 years • Sharp claws for climbing
• Carnivore • Small and light body to save energy

• Adaptations:
Olivillo Tree
• Dark leaves absorb more • Middle of the canopy layer
sunlight • Life span: Up to 400 years
• Bu%ress roots have • 24 metres in height
ridges, creating more • Dark green leaves with light
su&ace area to suppo$ green on the bo%om
the tree • Flower: One single olive

• The click beetle has a Carlota Click Beetle

hinge mechanism that
stores elastic energy • Black or brown body
• When it straightens it’s • 12 to 30 mm in size
back with a click • Larvae live inside soil in the forest #oor
• This energy hurls the • Adults move to the shrub layer
beetle into the air at 8 • Larvae eat small soil animals
feet per second away • Adults eat aphids, nectar and #owers
from predators