ADAPTATIONS

Vocabulary and Pictures

Vocabulary Words you need to know

Adaption: A body part, body covering, or behavior that helps an animal survive in its environment. Behavior: The actions of an animal.

Camouflage: A color or shape in an animals body covering that helps it blend into its environment.
Environment: Everything that surrounds and affects a living thing. The environment includes non-living things, such as water and air, as well as other living things. Habitat: The place where an animal lives. The physical characteristics of an animals surroundings.

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Inborn behavior (Instinct): A behavior an animal is born with and does not have to learn. Mimicry: An adaptation in which an otherwise harmless animal looks like a harmful animal in order to protect itself. Mutualism: The way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits.

Predator: An animal that hunts and eats other animals for food.
Prey: an animal that is taken and eaten by another animal (predator) for food. Survive/Survival: Using adaptations to continue to live.

PHYSICAL ADAPTATION
ANIMALS HAVE DEVELOPED SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY ADAPTED TO SURVIVAL IN A CERTAIN

BODY PARTS

ENVIRONMENT.

Webbed Feet
Aid in swimming, help animals propel themselves through the water with ease.

Sharp Claws
Herbivores use for digging for berries, roots, and herbs. Carnivores/Omnivores use their claws for killing their prey or tearing meat. Also, can be used for defense.

Sharp Teeth
Carnivores use sharp teeth to eat meat. Helps in defense,.

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Golden Eagle

Large Beak
This is a Rhinoceros Hornbill bird. The large beak helps animals eat. Large beaks can be found on herbivores and carnivores. They can be used for breaking open nuts or tearing meat.

Wings/Flying
Primary function is flight like this golden eagle, however, the Humboldt penguin uses its wings as flippers to move through the water.

Hooves
Animals with hooves use their specially adapted feet to maneuver in a rocky environment. They are used to protect the feet and greter mobility.

HELP PROTECT ANIMALS IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS, FROM LAND TO

BODY COVERINGS:

WATER, FROM THE ARCTIC TO THE DESERT.

Striped Fur
Helps animals blend into their environment. A type of camouflage. Allows animals to hide from predators or sneak up on prey.

Brightly Colored Feathers

Found in tropical rain forests. Serves several different purposes such as camouflage, defense, and mating.

Spotted Fur
Serves as camouflage as well. Many animals with striped fur live in heavily wooded forests areas. The spots allow the animal to hide in the wooded areas.

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Scales
Mainly for protection from the environment for most animals. Anaconda mainly in water, and other snakes in dry climate.

BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATIONS
Here is a list of behavioral adaptations;

Because male Bengal tigers do not live in prides they result in spraying urine around to attract the females. They also hunt on heir own for two reasons: to not be as visible and also so they get more food. Tigers ambush their prey and , when catching it, bite the neck or throat. The length and thickness of a tiger's coat varies according to where it lives. Tigers living in cold areas, such as Russia have thick coats to keep them warm. Tigers in warmer climates have shorter hair, also tigers can climb trees to allow them to get prey that lurk in higher parts of their habitat.

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GRIZZLY BEAR NORTH AMERICA

Mimicry Examples

Insects are common examples of mimicry. Insects can be so blend with their surroundings that sometimes we can not recognize them. Some insects can have the appearance of twigs, leaf, bark, wood and some may simply be the same color as their habitat.

This insect looks like a dried leaf, and the shape and color.This is a great camouflage against predators who will go next to him thinking he is the most common leaf.

Some butterflies are its color can fully merge with a leaf or tree that contains. And some butterflies on their wings have painted a false head like a butterfly on this picture. At first glance it seems to us that we saw a animal with large and passionate eyes, giving them a good way of camouflage, and defense against predators.

Many beetles can have vibrant colors that can easily drive off the enemy.On this bug colors are so deployed give us the impression that we look into being with large eyes and mouth filled with sharp say teeth.

One of the ways for sea creatures to camouflage theirselves is digging themselves in the sand. Fully cover their body with sand and gravel and only their eyes (usually) remain above the sand :) its a good way to protect and to attack. Rays are a great example of mimicry by digging in the sand.

Some fish are completely assumed the color and appearance as the seabed and bottom of the ocean. Many fish most of their life spend at the bottom to protect themselves. This fish would be hard to notice because the color and shape resembles the rocks.

Amphibians and reptiles are also an excellent example of mimicry.There are reptiles which people immediately can remember when mimicry is mentioned.It is a chameleon, the lizard who changes its colors according to the environment that surrounds him. That is the best way to protect themselves but also to catch their lunch.

Mimicry sometimes known to be dangerous phenomenon, that shows other reptiles snakes. Snakes are an excellent example of camouflage because of its color and thin body. Snakes can often confused with branches, stones and they can also camouflage filling in the sand and gravel. It can be very dangerous to other creatures if they are in the vicinity and not notice the snake.

In addition to insects, reptiles, fish and birds can be excellent examples of mimicry. Their feathers can take the colors of their surrounding so much that the animals who come across their menu barely stand a chance to survive if they get near them. This owl would be difficult to see in nature.

 A mutualistic relationship is when two organisms of different species "work together," each benefiting from the relationship. One example of a mutualistic relationship is that of the oxpecker (a kind of bird) and the rhinoceros or zebra. The birds eat ticks and other parasites that live on skin.
The oxpeckers get food and the beasts get pest control.

MUTUALISTIC RELATIONS

Alarm system: when there is danger, the oxpeckers fly upward and scream a warning, which helps the symbiont (a name for the other partner in a relationship).