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Animal Adaptations

Animal Adaptations. Staying Alive. The name of this fish is…?. Porcupine fish. Porcupine  Fish. It’s a jungle out there!!!. Wild animals face one challenge after another! The Three Challenges 1. Find food! 2. Don’t be food! 3. Fit in! (to a habitat) Habitat: a place where you live.

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Animal Adaptations

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  1. Animal Adaptations Staying Alive

  2. The name of this fish is…?

  3. Porcupine fish • Porcupine • Fish

  4. It’s a jungle out there!!! • Wild animals face one challenge after another! • The Three Challenges 1. Find food! 2. Don’t be food! 3. Fit in! (to a habitat) • Habitat: a place where you live

  5. Adaptations • An adaptation is an inherited trait that helps a living thing survive. • Inherited trait: something you received from your parents when you were born • Survive: to go on living (to not die)

  6. Examples of Adaptations • Webbed feet • Webbed feet help ducks paddle quickly through water  better chance of survival

  7. Examples of Adaptations • Flashy tail feathers • These help peacocks catch the attention of peahens  better chance of having offspring

  8. Examples of Adaptations • Moving s---l---o---w---l---y • This keeps sloths from being noticed by jaguars and other predators  better chance of survival

  9. 2 Types of Adaptations • 1. Structural Adaptations • Body parts that help an animal • Example: hollow bones make birds light  they can fly • 2. Behavioral Adaptations • Helpful instincts, or actions an animal does automatically • Example: birds migrate south, bears hibernate

  10. Structural and Behavioral • Sometimes both kinds of adaptations work together. • Think of the porcupine fish. • What is the structural adaptation? • It has stretchy skin and spikes. • What is the behavioral adaptation? • It gulps water when in danger.

  11. Aardvarks in Action (how to FIND food!) • Read pages 8 and 9. • Answer these questions about aardvarks. • 1. What do they eat? • 2. List 4 adaptations which help them get their food. • Strong legs and sharp claws • Stiff hairs in the nose • Tough skin • Long and sticky tongue

  12. Diverse Defenses (how to not BE food!) • How do you not get eaten by bigger animals? • More than just running away is needed. • Australian frilled lizard • Use both structural and behavioral adaptations • Behavioral: opens its mouth wide • Structural: flap of loose skin spreads out, making the lizard look much bigger

  13. Australian frilled lizards

  14. Three-banded armadillo

  15. Very tough skin which even puma, cougar, or mountain lions cannot bite though it

  16. Another strategy: Avoid fighting! • Camouflage: blending in • Example: a leaf butterfly

  17. Mimicry: looking like another animal

  18. Other Cool Traits • Some animals go dormant. • dormant: • Going inactive

  19. How about YOU? • If you could, what adaptations would you like to have??? • Night vision? Run faster? • Photographic memory? •   

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