CAVING: Basic Lesson: Caves Habitats

Basic Lesson: Cave Habitats

All creatures that spend most or all of his life in the cave called troglodyte. Troglodyte habitat based on environmental conditions that support community life can be divided into four zones, namely:

1. Light zone, which is the mouth of the cave area, the light is the same as outside the cave.
2. Twilight Zone, an area in the cave where green plants can still grow. Light on this area at dusk.
3. Dark zone with a temperature change, a total dark areas characterized by temperature and humidity that can still be changed at any time according to changing weather conditions luar.



Cave Biology Pyramid

4. Constant temperature of the dark zone, an area that is farthest from the mouth of the cave with the temperature and humidity are always fixed.

Animals in the cave can be divided into three different groups, namely:

• Troglopile, the animals who love the darkness, but still foraging in the cave. For example; bats and swiftlets. Although their homes are included in the total dark zone, but the fluctuations in temperature and humidity are constant. So troghopile utilize caves as shelter and refuge.

• Trogloxine, the animals only by chance inside the cave, because the animal is actually foreign to the life of the cave. For example; raccoons, snakes, and so on. This animal is normally found in the mouth of the cave to the twilight zone.

• Troglobion, the entire life cycle of animals which have been done in the cave, so it has different properties with beasts at ground level. For example; fish that have long to live and breed in caves in certain zones undergo physical changes become pigmented, function and vision tidan tentacle become more bare. It can occur after such a long time and the habitat is completely isolated from outside influences.

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