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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. 

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  • It also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within their environments. 

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  • 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.

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  • 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. 

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  • Behaviour adaptations can be learned or instinctive.

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  • Social behaviour  
  • Behaviour for protection  

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Migration

  • Animals migrate for different reasons. 

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  • better climate
  • better food
  • safe place to live
  • safe place to raise young
  • go back to the place they were born.

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  • 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.

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  • E.g. Bats, woodchucks & bears.

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