pecies of squirrels live together? Well, in a brief summary each of the nine species is a different size; three have specialized diets or habitats, which leaves six species that feed on nuts, fruits and insects, and so potentially compete for food. A closer look showed that three of the six, a large, a medium, and a small one live in the forest canopy and never come to the ground. The largest squirrel feeds mainly on very large, hard nuts, and the smaller ones eat smaller fruits and nuts. The other three species, again a large medium and small one live in the ground and eat fruits and nuts of the same species as their canopy neighbors, but only after they fall to the ground. Tropical rainforests are bursting with life. Not only do millions of species of plants and animals live in rainforests, but many people also call the rainforest their home. In fact, Indigenous, or native, people have lived in rainforests for thousands of years. In North and South America they were mistakenly named Indians by Christopher Columbus, who thought that he had landed in Indonesia, then called the East Indies. The native people of the rainforest live very different lives than us. In this section, I will explain how very different our lives differ than from the indigenous people of the rainforest. Although many indigenous people live very much like we do, some still live as their ancestors did many years before them. These groups organize their daily lives differently than our culture. Everything they need to survive, from food to medicines to clothing, comes from the forest. FOOD Besides haunting, gathering wild fruits and nuts and fishing, Indigenous people also plant small gardens for other sources of food, using a sustainable farming method called shifting cultivating. First they clear a small area of land and burn it. Then they plant many types of plants, to be used for food and medicines. After a few years, the soil has become too p...
