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Animal Adaptations

Animal Adaptations. Types of Adaptation. Anything that helps an organism survive in its environment is an adaptation.  It also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within their environments.  Structural adaptation Protective coloration Mimicry

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Animal Adaptations

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  1. Animal Adaptations

  2. Types of Adaptation • Anything that helps an organism survive in its environment is an adaptation.  • It also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within their environments.  • Structural adaptation • Protective coloration • Mimicry • Behaviour adaptations • Migration • Hibernation

  3. Structural adaptations • A structural adaptation involves some part of an animal's body. • Teeth • Body coverings    • Movement

  4. Body Covering- Protection

  5. Protective Coloration • Coloration and protective resemblance allow an animal to blend into its environment.  • Another word for this is camouflage.  • Prey animals need camouflage to hide and predators need it so they can steak up and attack their food.

  6. What am I?

  7. Disruptive Patterns- Confuse Predators!

  8. Mimicry • Mimicry allows one animal to look, sound, or act like another animal to fool predators into thinking it is poisonous or dangerous.  

  9. Which is more dangerous? • A monarch butterfly is poisonous to birds • The Viceroy is mimicking the coloration of the Monarch

  10. Behaviour adaptations • Behaviour adaptations include activities that help an animal survive.  • Behaviour adaptations can be learned or instinctive. • Social behaviour   • Behaviour for protection  

  11. Migration • Animals migrate for different reasons.  • better climate • better food • safe place to live • safe place to raise young • go back to the place they were born. • This is when behavioral adaptation that involves an animal or group of animals moving from one region to another and then back again. 

  12. This is deep sleep in which animal’s body temp droops, body activities are slowed to conserve energy. E.g. Bats, woodchucks & bears. Hibernation

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