The subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest supports a diverse ecosystem, and includes many animals in its layers. The emergent layer is the top layer. It is made up of the tallest trees that peek out over the canopy. Birds of all types from eagles to brightly colored parrots call this part of the forest home. The next layer is the canopy and makes up the roof of the forest. Monkeys, arboreal snakes, and frogs are just some of the inhabitants of this part. The understory is the middle layer that gets small amounts sun. Big cats, snakes, and some species of apes are found here. The shrub layer and forest floor are the lowest layers. Decomposition happens quickly in these areas because of the lack of sunlight. This layer houses gorillas, deer, insects, and several species of rodents.
From the sunny treetops to the dark forest floor, this humid locale offers a home to numerous types of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds. However, some of the species that once called these areas home are now extinct due to deforestation.
Even-toed ungulates
Greater mouse deer
Elk
Water chevrotain
Abbott's duiker
Pygmy hippopotamus
Common hippopotamus
Chousingha
Barasingha
Tamaraw
Mountain anoa
Collared peccary
White-lipped peccary
Chevrotain
Carnivores
Cameroon clawless otter
Flat-headed cat
Asiatic jackal
Fishing cat
American jackal
Common otter
Speckle-throated otter
Bay cat
Hairy-nosed otter
Asiatic golden cat
Asiatic wild dog
Bush dog
Indian smooth-coated otter
African golden cat
Bushy-tailed olingo
Beddard's olingo
Central american cacomistle
Nilgiri marten
Common fox
Tiger
Tropical weasel
Everett's ferret-badger
Andean bear
Marbled cat
Short-eared dog
Maned wolf
Ocelot
Little spotted cat
Little coati
Margay
Clouded leopard
Huillin
African clawless otter
Leopard cat
Bats
Buettikofer's epauletted fruit bat
Intermediate slit-faced bat
Ega long-tongued bat
Franquet's epauletted fruit bat
Large-eared slit-faced bat
Ja slit-faced bat
Pohle's fruit bat
Dwarf slit-faced bat
Zenker's fruit bat
Short-palated fruit bat
Schreber's yellow bat
Nut-colored yellow bat
Sierra leone free-tailed bat
Lesser dog-faced fruit bat
Medje free-tailed bat
Dwarf free-tailed bat
White-bellied free-tailed bat
Hammer-headed fruit bat
Peterson's free-tailed bat
Aba roundleaf bat
Spurrell's free-tailed bat
Nicobar flying fox
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Railer bat
Comoro black flying fox
Natal free-tailed bat
Rodrigues flying fox
Madagascan flying fox
Seychelles flying fox
Tanzanian woolly bat
Woermann's bat
Dark flying fox
Copper woolly bat
Duke of abruzzi's free-tailed bat
Sao tomé collared fruit bat
Pemba flying fox
Lesser woolly bat
Gallagher's free-tailed bat
Chestnut sac-winged bat
Little collared fruit bat
Halcyon horseshoe bat
Spurrell's woolly bat
Nigerian free-tailed bat
Bini free-tailed bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Little free-tailed bat
Andaman horseshoe bat
Salim ali's fruit bat
Russet free-tailed bat
Tiny pipistrelle
Negros naked-backed fruit bat
Decken's horseshoe bat
Yellow-winged bat
Hayman's dwarf epauletted fruit bat
Eloquent horseshoe bat
Peter's dwarf epauletted fruit bat
Guinean horseshoe bat
Benito roundleaf bat
Moloney's flat-headed bat
Forest horseshoe bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Veldkamp's bat
Short-tailed roundleaf bat
Seychelles sheath-tailed bat
Cyclops roundleaf bat
Comoro rousette
Sooty roundleaf bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
Bate's slit-faced bat
Pel's pouched bat
Lamotte's roundleaf bat
Gambian slit-faced bat
Aellen's roundleaf bat
Large slit-faced bat
Noack's roundleaf bat
Lesser angolan epauletted fruit bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
American marsupials
Osgood's short-tailed opossum
Black-shouldered opossum
Chestnut-striped short-tailed opossum
Long-nosed short-tailed opossum
Shrewish short-tailed opossum
Theresa's short-tailed opossum
One-striped short-tailed opossum
Bushy-tailed opossum
Little rufous mouse opossum
Aceramarca gracile mouse opossum
Tyler's mouse opossum
Agile gracile mouse opossum
Wood sprite gracile mouse opossum
Emilia's gracile mouse opossum
Northern gracile mouse opossum
Brazilian gracile mouse opossum
Pale-bellied woolly mouse opossum
Water opossum
Three-striped short-tailed opossum
Southern short-tailed opossum
Emilia's short-tailed opossum
Ihering's short-tailed opossum
Pygmy short-tailed opossum
Marajó short-tailed opossum
Hyraxes
Eastern tree dassie
Western tree dassie
Elephant-shrews
Four-toed elephant shrew
Checkered elephant shrew
Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs
Baird's tapir
Asian tapir
Brazilian tapir
Primates
Black squirrel monkey
Slender loris
Colombian night monkey
Andean night monkey
Long-haired spider monkey
Red colobus
Black-handed spider monkey
White-whiskered spider monkey
Bearded saki
Black spider monkey
Red howler monkey
Lion-tailed macaque
Golden-mantled howling monkey
Diana guenon
Dryad monkey
Red-bellied guenon
Pennant's red colobus
Drill
Red-eared guenon
Gorilla
Preuss's guenon
Sclater's guenon
Bonobo
Sun-tailed guenon
Chimpanzee
Muriqui
Brazilian bare-faced tamarin
Gee's golden langur
Ma's night monkey
Black-headed night monkey
Douroucouli
Night monkey
Black-faced lion tamarin
Black howler monkey
Black lion tamarin
Bald uakari
Orang-utan
Black-faced black spider monkey
Golden lion tamarin
Black uacari
Doubtful titi monkey
Ashy black titi
Black colobus
Andean titi monkey
Guatemalan black howler monkey
Atlantic titi
Buffy-tufted-ear marmoset
Cotton-headed tamarin
Buffy-headed marmoset
Black-crowned central american squirrel monkey
Geoffroy's marmoset
Elephants
African elephant
Rodents
Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
Liberian forest hybomys
African smoky mouse
Temminck's striped mouse
Mutable sun squirrel
Peters' hybomys
Small sun squirrel
Dollman's tree mouse
Thomas's rope squirrel
Red-legged sun squirrel
Lady burton's rope squirrel
African groove-toothed rat
Giant rat
Baer's hylomyscus
Zanj sun squirrel
White-spined spiny rat
Ribboned rope squirrel
Golden mouse
White-tailed olalla rat
Gambian rat
Lesser hylomyscus
Goldman's spiny pocket mouse
Gorgona spiny rat
Red-cheeked rope squirrel
Greedy olalla rat
Beaded hylomyscus
Nelson's spiny pocket mouse
Fire-footed rope squirrel
Brown's hutia
Bolivar rice rat
Brown hairy dwarf porcupine
Allen's hylomyscus
Mountain spiny pocket mouse
African brush-tailed porcupine
Bahamian hutia
Macconnell's rice rat
Peruvian bamboo rat
Target rat
Cansdale's swamp rat
Slender-tailed squirrel
Stella hylomyscus
Swan island hutia
Elegant rice rat
Bangs's mountain squirrel
Edward's swamp rat
Forest giant squirrel
Talamancan rice rat
Rudd's mole rat
Big-eared swamp rat
Long-eared flying squirrel
Lesser hamster-rat
Yungas rice rat
Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel
Greater hamster-rat
Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat
Brazilian shrew mouse
Plain brush-tailed rat
Oriente cave rat
Pygmy mouse
Mt. pirri isthmus rat
Torre's cave rat
Congo forest mouse
Thomas's pygmy mouse
Greater cane rat
Natal multimammate mouse
Alexander's bush squirrel
Defua rat
Boehm's bush squirrel
Ivory coast rat
Hispaniolan edible rat
Red bush squirrel
Pacarana
Green bush squirrel
Arboreal soft-furred spiny rat
Striped ground squirrel
Brazilian spiny tree rat
Red crested tree rat
African pygmy squirrel
Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse
Dusky spiny tree rat
Garrido's hutia
Cameroon scaly-tail
Chibchan water mouse
Bunting's thicket rat
Cuvier's hutia
Chapman's prehensile-tailed hutia
Woodland thicket rat
Samana hutia
Golden atlantic tree rat
Black-tailed hutia
Macmillan's thicket rat
Rushi's rat
White-faced tree rat
Isla de la juventud tree hutia
Bishop's fossorial spiny rat
Shining thicket rat
Hinde's rock rat
Jackson's praomys
Painted tree rat
Lemke's hutia
Christy's dormouse
Cochabamba grass mouse
Least praomys
Peruvian tree rat
Jentink's dormouse
Misonne's praomys
Giant atlantic tree rat
Lorrain dormouse
Lord derby's flying squirrel
Forest soft-furred mouse
Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
African wading rat
Silent dormouse
Pel's flying squirrel
Tullberg's praomys
Ebian's palm squirrel
Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat
Slender-tailed deer mouse
Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel
Baifran palm squirrel
Fire-bellied brush-furred rat
Jico deer mouse
Edentates
Greater long-nosed armadillo
Common long-nosed armadillo
Hairy long-nosed armadillo
Brazilian lesser long-nosed armadillo
Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Greater naked-tailed armadillo
Cabasu
Giant armadillo
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