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Adaptations

2. Have you ever wondered how animals are able to survive in the wild?
Animals have certain adaptations that help them to survive.

3. Think about the way you dress in the winter.
You don’t wear your shorts and bathing suit when it’s snowing outside!
You wear warm clothes, and maybe even a hat and mittens to protect yourself from the weather.

4. And what if you are having a snowball fight?
You probably run away from the person throwing at you, and maybe even try to sneak up on that person and throw some snowballs!

5. The way you dress in the winter, as well as the way that you run and hide from someone throwing snow at you are kinds of …
Adaptations.

6. What is an adaptation?
An adaptation is a change in an animal’s physical structure or behavior that helps an animal to survive in their habitat.
Examples: The shape of a bird’s beak, number of fingers and toes, or the color of an animal’s fur.
Physical adaptations do not develop during one lifetime, but over many generations.

7. We can separate adaptations into two categories:
Physical
AND
Behavioral

8. Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.
are body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce its species.
Hey! I’m a walking stick. I look just like a stick you’d find on the ground.
Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.

9. Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
Physical adaptation
Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
The chameleon can change its color to match its surroundings. Can you do that?

10. (looking or sounding like another living organism)
Physical adaptation
Mimicry
(looking or sounding like another living organism)
The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?
I’m the Viceroy!
Not poisonous
Poisonous
I’m the Monarch!

11. Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)
Physical adaptation
Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)

12. Physical adaptations
Body coverings & parts (claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)
The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick things up.

13. Behavioral Adaptations…
Now let’s learn about
Behavioral Adaptations…
Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs.

14. Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Remember that Physical Adaptations are body structures.
Each organism has unique methods of adapting to its environment by means of different actions.

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

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

17. Hibernation
This is deep sleep in which animal’s body temp droops, body activities are slowed to conserve energy.
E.g. Bats, woodchucks & bears.
Hibernation- is a deep sleep in which an animal's body temperature drops to about the temperature of the environment.  Body activities, such as heartbeat and breathing are slowed causing the animal to need very little food. 
Animals that hibernate are 
bats 
woodchucks
snakes 
bears.
During the hibernation the animals live off of the fat that is stored in their body. 

18. 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. 
Migration-is the behavioral adaptation that involves an animal or group of animals moving from one region to another and then back again. 
Animals migrate for different reasons.  The reasons are as follows.
better climate
better food
safe place to live
safe place to raise young
go back to the place they were born.

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

20. Grooming
Learned Behaviors
Using tools to get food

21. Mammals Endothermic or warm-blooded All have some type of “hair”
Some are very specialized, such as white polar bear fur
Method of locomotion
Care for young

22. Birds Leg Length Foot Webbing Beak Shape Roseate Spoonbill (top right)
Laughing Gull (top left)
Beak Shape
Long Billed Curlew (bottom)

23. Amphibians Ectothermic Lay eggs in water
Partially of fully webbed feet
Have lungs or can absorb oxygen through their skin

24. Reptiles Ectothermic or cold- blooded Scales
Some undergo hibernation and estivation
Lay eggs on land
Leg structure and position

25. Adaptation Applications: Lions
Why are the eyes of a lion set in front of the head rather than on the sides?
Answer: Eyes in front of the head allow for depth perception and ability to judge distances when hunting.

26. Adaptation Applications: Lions
What is the purpose of the mane on a male lion? What is the reason for the lion’s color?
A thick mane helps the male to appear larger and serves as protection for the throat. The tawny brown coat color camouflages the animal and young among vegetation.

27. Adaptation Applications: Giraffe
Why are giraffes able to go for long periods of time without water?
Answer: Giraffes drink water when available, but can go weeks without it. They rely on morning dew and the water content of their food.

28. Adaptation Applications: Giraffe
How are their long necks adapted to their lifestyle?
Answer: This extra length is thought to have evolved to help the giraffe spot predators and other giraffes in the distance. Interestingly, giraffes and humans have the same number of vertebrate in their necks.

29. Adaptation Applications: Zebras
How do zebras defend themselves?
Capable of running up to 40 mph. Zebras defend themselves by kicking and biting. Coloration also plays a role in evading predators, although theories have not reached an agreement.

30. animal adaptations. In this lesson, we have learned about
There are 2 ways to describe adaptations:
Behavioral
Physical
and

31. Physical adaptations are body structures.
Some examples of physical adaptations are:
Camouflage
Mimicry
Chemical defenses
Body coverings & parts

32. Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Behavioral Adaptations can be
Instinctive or Learned.

33. The next time you read about an animal in the wild, or when you see one on television, think about its adaptations….
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