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Animal Adaptations

Animal Adaptations. Types of Adaptations. 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.  Physical Adaptations include: Structural adaptation

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Animal Adaptations

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  1. Animal Adaptations

  2. Types of Adaptations • 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.  • Physical Adaptations include: • Structural adaptation • Protective coloration • Mimicry • Chemical Defenses • Behavior adaptations • Instinctive • Learned

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

  4. Which of these birds would be able to open seeds the best?

  5. 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.  

  6. Protective Coloration

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

  8. Chemical defenses • Animals that use chemicals to ward off predators • i.e.- Skunks spraying, Octopus ink, Snake venom

  9. Chemical Defenses

  10. Behavior adaptations • Behavior adaptations include activities that help an animal survive.  • These are the animals ACTIONS

  11. We can divide Behavioral Adaptations into two groups: Instinctive Learned These behaviors happen naturally & don’t have to be learned. These behaviors must be taught.

  12. Instinctive behaviors happen naturally & don’t need to be learned = Methods of gathering & storing food Hibernating Defending oneself Finding shelter Raising young Migrating

  13. 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. 

  14. This is deep sleep in which animal’s body temp droops, body activities are slowed to conserve energy. E.g. Bats, woodchucks & bears. Hibernation

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

  16. Adaptations Physical Behavioral • Structural adaptation • Protective coloration • Mimicry • Chemical Defences • Instinctive • Hibernation • Migration • Learned

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