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are adaptations some animals use as protection from predators. Camouflage and Mimicry are adaptations some animals use as protection from predators.

If You Can't Run You've Got to Hide! Find Waldo This will test your predator skills of looking closely and finding something that is very well hidden! Emphasize word parts here: phospho= phosphate head; lipid= fatty acid tail bi= 2

Camouflage Some insects and animals use camouflage as an effective way to protect themselves from natural enemies. An animal that uses camouflage looks like things in its environment. a leaf a twig a rock

Find the Critter Can you find the frog? A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. In this diagram, you can see the ribosome is making a polypeptide, also known as a protein. Can you find the frog?

A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. In this diagram, you can see the ribosome is making a polypeptide, also known as a protein. Here I am.

Blend in with the Environment Trick your predators to overlook you. A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. In this diagram, you can see the ribosome is making a polypeptide, also known as a protein. Can you find the Spider?

Change to Match the Season A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. In this diagram, you can see the ribosome is making a polypeptide, also known as a protein. Arctic Fox in Winter Arctic Fox in Summer Many birds and mammals produce different colors of fur or feathers depending on the time of year.

Change to Match the Environment A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. In this diagram, you can see the ribosome is making a polypeptide, also known as a protein. Cuttlefish Many animals change when their environment changes.

Mimicry Looking or sounding like a scary, bigger, poisonous, or bad tasting organism. Advantages: Don’t have to put the energy (food) into making poison, being bigger, etc. Provides opportunity for escape Provides opportunity for catching prey Disadvantages: Doesn’t always work. Types: Visual Auditory Actin, also found in muscle cells, mainly help maintain cell shape in their cytoskeletal role. Microtubules mostly move organelles around the cell. Intermediate filaments also provide structural support.

Trick Them with Shape and Color The hawkmoth looks like a dead leaf, tattered and veined. A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. In this diagram, you can see the ribosome is making a polypeptide, also known as a protein. Inchworm looks like a twig

Pretend to be something you’re not. This spider mimics bark with color and visual texture. This caterpillar mimics a bird dropping.

Trick Them! Play Dead! ↑ Hognose snake ← Opossum Many kinds of animals will play dead if they see no escape.

Startle Them with Sudden Eyes!

The ‘EYES’ have It This caterpillar looks and moves like a viper. Startling a predator may give you a chance for escape!

Pretend to be ferocious! Sometimes harmless insects look ferocious, frightening their enemies. A hornet fly has the markings of a hornet, but has no stinger. Predators who have had their mouths stung by a hornet do not try to eat hornets again, nor do they try to catch the hornet fly!

Warn Them! I Taste Bad! Poison dart frogs are both very toxic and have attitude This butterfly eloquently claims "I taste terrible!"

Fake Them Out: Pretend You Taste Bad Microtubules are also part of the cytoskeleton. Which is the Monarch? The tasty Viceroy butterfly on the left mimics the bitter Monarch on the right

Plants Mimic Insects! Plants use mimicy too, not just animals. Orchid use both shape and scent to attract pollinators. Many orchids mimic the shapes of certain flying insect females.

Pretend You Are a Flower This pitcher plant offers sweets on its landing lip, and fragrant water below. Notice the down-pointing hairs to keep flies in. Sundews offer balls of sweet, glue, then close around the prey