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Animal Adaptations

Explore the various types of adaptations in animals, including structural, coloration, mimicry, behavior, migration, hibernation, obtaining food, predator-prey, and interactions. Discover how animals survive and thrive in different environments.

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Animal Adaptations

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  1. Animal Adaptations Chapter 3 Section 4

  2. Types of Adaptation • An adaptation is a characteristic that improves an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment • Also the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within environment • Structural adaptation • Protective coloration • Mimicry • Behaviour adaptations • Migration • Hibernation

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

  4. Coloration • Colorationand protective resemblance allow an animal to blend into its environment  • Sometimes called camouflage • Camouflage makes it hard for enemies to single out individuals 

  5. Mimicry • Mimicry allows one animal to look, sound, or act like another animal • fools predators into thinking it is poisonous or dangerous.  Coral Snake King Snake Owl Butterfly

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

  7. Migration • Reasons: • better climate • better food • safe place to live • raise young • return where they were born • Adaptation that involves an animal or group of animals moving from one region to another and back again 

  8. Hibernation/Estivation • Period of inactivity in which body temp., breathing & heart rate drop to conserve energy • EX: bats, woodchucks & bears.

  9. Obtaining Food • Some animals have adaptations to help them obtain food • EX: • Chameleons • Woodpeckers • Anteaters

  10. Predator-Prey • Adaptations that serve as a defense against predators • EX: • Porcupine quills • Bright markings • Stripe patterns

  11. Interactions • Species can adapt to interact with one another • EX: the honeycreeper and the lobelia plant • Honeycreeper uses long, curved beak to reach nectar at the base of lobelia flower • Pollen transfers to bird’s head which pollinates the next flower

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