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STATION 4
Second hanging bridge
A drop of water
As you walk over the bridge, observe the
forest from above and imagine the fall of a
drop of water from the sky to the ground.
The plants cushion the fall by passing each
drop gently from one leaf to another,
something they are able to do thanks to
their shapes - many with long tips that
point toward the ground.
On its journey, each drop crosses different
levels of the forest. They go from the
highest part (the canopy), where the sun
reaches directly and the leaves are smaller;
to the lowest part (the understory), where
there are plants adapted to the shade, with
wide leaves to capture the indirect light.
Upon reaching the ground, the water is
stored or forms small streams like the
one that passes under this bridge.
Strawberry poison dart-frog or “blue
jeans frog” (Oophaga pumilio)
Did you know… There are plants, like the
Bromeliad, that store rainwater. In
this microenvironment,
animals, such as the larva of
giant dragonflies, and
Bromeliad
Werauhia gladioliflora
tadpoles of the blue jeans
A plant pollinated by bats
frogs are able to grow.