Of Books and Boys
Rebecca Hogue Wojahn. School librarian by day. Children's writer by night.
A Cloud Forest Food Chain
Welcome to an African cloud forest! As you set off down the mountain path, all you see ahead is a thick tangle of vines and bamboo trees. But the cloud forest is full of life, from a collared sunbird hovering over some flowers to a leopard stalking a giant forest hog. Day and night in the cloud forest, the hunt is on to find food – and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant to insect, and insect to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the cloud forest? Will you . . . Watch a fierce honey badger battle a dangerous snake? Slink along with an African golden cat as it tails its prey? Munch on some leaves with a family of mountain gorillas? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!

So, Who Eats What?

I’ve created a Powerpoint slideshow of the animals that are featured in A Cloud Forest: a Who-Eats-What Adventure. You have to download it for all the internal links and food web routes to work, but please, try it out!

A Cloud Forest Food Chain

A Cloud Forest Food Chain (ppt file)

A Complete List of All the Animals in the Book

  • African golden cat
  • begonias
  • black mamba
  • blue duiker
  • butterflies
  • chimpanzee
  • collared sunbird
  • eastern balck-and-white colobus
  • fungus
  • giant forest hog
  • giant otter shrew
  • greeen mountain bamboo
  • highland mangabey
  • honey badger
  • impatiens
  • leopard
  • martial eagle
  • mountain gorilla
  • okapi
  • rock hyrax
  • Ruwenzori turaco
  • speckled cockroach
  • strange-horned chameleon
  • termites
  • trees
  • tropical house gecko

Want to learn more about these animals? Check your library or search for them in these links: