Animal Adaptation

Anything that helps an organism survive in its environment. Also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within their environments.

• 1) Structural
• 2) Protective Coloration
• 3) Mimicry
• 4) Behaviour Adaptations
• 5) Migration
• 6) Hibernation

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

• A Structural Adaptation involves some art of an animal's body, such as
• 1) Teeth
• 2) Body Coverings
• 3) Movement

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

Behaviour adaptations include activities that help an animal survive. Behavious adaptations can be learned or instinctive - Social Behaviour and Behaviour for protection.

This is when behavioral adaptation that involves an animal or group of animals moving from one region to another an then back again.

• 1) Better Climate
• 2) Better Food
• 3) Safe place to live
• 4) Safe place to raise young
• 5) Go back to the place they were born

This is deep sleep in which animal's body temperature drops, body activities are slowed to conserve energy.

• Bats
• Woodchucks
• Bears

• 1) Physical; and
• 2) Behavioral

Body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce its species. It helps an animal survive in its environment.

Use of colorin a surrounding. The chameleon can change its color to match its surroundings.

Looking or sounding like another living organism. A Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch butterfly.

• 1) Chemical Defenses like venom, ink, sprays
• 2) Body Coverings & Parts like claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls and teeth.

It allows animals to respond to life needs. Each organism has unique methods of adapting to its environment by means of different actions.

• 1) Instinctive: These behaviors happen naturally and don't have to be learned.
• 2) Learned: The behaviors must be taught.

• Happen naturally and don't need to be learnied. For example:
• 1) Defending oneself
• 2) Raising young
• 3) Hibernating
• 4) Migrating
• 5) Finding Shelter

Obtained by interacting with the environment and cannot be passed on to the next generation except by teaching.