Penguin Adaptations

1. Penguin Adaptations By Kurt Barber

2. What is an adaptation? An adaptation is an alteration or adjustment in structure or habits, often hereditary, by which a species or individual improves it’s condition in relationship to it’s environment

3. Behavioural Adaptation. Behavioural adaptations is something an animal does, e.g. wolves staying in a pack to ambush and outmanoeuvre prey.

4. Physiological Adaptation Physiological adaptations is something the body can make, e.g., a skunk spraying to drive away enemies.

5. Structural Adaptation Structural adaptations is something of or relating to organic structure, e.g. a tortoise shell to protect it from predators and the sun.

6. Penguin Adaptations Penguins keep themselves warm using their blubber, which is a physiological adaptation. When they are young they instinctively eat what their mothers throw up for them, which is a behavioural adaptation. Penguins wings are made so that they are more suitable for swimming than flying. Penguins wings are more like flippers. This is a structural adaptation