Animal Adaptations

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Animal Adaptations

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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

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Structural adaptations

A structural adaptation involves some part of an animal's body.

Teeth

Body coverings

Movement

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Protective Coloration

Coloration and protective resemblance allow an animal to blend into its environment.

Another word for this might be camouflage. Their camouflage makes it hard for enemies to single out individuals.

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Mimicry

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

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Behaviour adaptations

Behaviour adaptations include activities that help an animal survive.

Behaviour adaptations can be learned or instinctive.

Social behaviour

Behaviour for protection

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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.

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Hibernation

This is deep sleep in which animal’s body temp droops, body activities are slowed to conserve energy.

E.g. Bats, woodchucks & bears.