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i need a need a detailed food chain of animals in the tropical rainforest.?

So far, i've started with Bengal Tigers. I know, they eat wild boars and lemurs and monkeys, but i would like specifics. They might eat ring-tailed lemurs, but i need more animals. For what i am doing, if i want lemurs AND Bengal Tigers, i would have to have maybe 5 times more lemurs than tigers. i might need some snakes. Be specific please! thanks:)

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1. Well, if your food chain is supposed to reflect an actual situation, then you need to use animals that live in the same geographical range. Ring-tailed lemurs only occur in Madagascar, where there are no tigers. Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. You'll need to choose one or the other. If you go with the tigers, then the Animal Diversity Web page that I link below has this detailed account of prey species: "The majority of the tiger diet consists of various large ungulate species, including sambar (Rusa unicolor), chital (Axis axis), hog deer (Axis porcinus), barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak), elk (Cervus elaphus), sika deer (Cervus nippon), Eurasian elk (Alces alces), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), muskdeer (Moschus moschiferus), nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus), black buck (Antilope cervicapra), gaur (Bos frontalis), banteng (Bos javanicus), water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), and wild pigs (Sus). Domestic ungulates are also taken, including cattle (Bos taurus), water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), horses (Equus caballus), and goats (Capra hircus). In rare cases tigers attack Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus), Indian elephants (Elephas maximus), and young Indian rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros unicornis). Tigers regularly attack and eat brown bears (Ursus arctos), Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus), and sloth bears (Melursus ursinus). Smaller animals are sometimes taken when larger prey is unavailable, this includes large birds such as pheasants (Phasianinae), leopards (Panthera pardus), fish, crocodiles (Crocodylus), turtles, porcupines (Hystrix), rats, and frogs. A very few tigers begin to hunt humans (Homo sapiens)." So, pick one prey species, then click on the link to find out what they eat, and so on. You're right that there should be many more individuals in the lower trophic levels (the first links of the chain), but that sounds as if you're trying to build an ecological pyramid, not a chain.