1. How Do Animals Survive In The Wild?
Animal Adaptations
How Do Animals Survive In The Wild?

2. Defend against predators Find mates for reproduction
Basic Animal
Requirements:
Find food to grow
Defend against predators
Find mates for reproduction

3. An adaptation is a variation of structure or behavior that aids the organism’s survival in its particular environment.

4. How do these factors help animals survive?
Physical adaptations—structural, coloration, chemical defenses
Physiological adaptation
Behavioral adaptation
Instincts and Learned behavior

5. 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.

6. Structural Adaptation

7. Structural Adaptation
A body part that aids in survival
Examples:
Fins
Gills
Teeth
Streamline body

8. How do different feet types aid in survival?

9. Structural Adaptation
A body part that aids in survival
Examples:
Heron’s feet are for wading in mud
Eagle’s feet for grabbing and holding prey
Duck’s feet are for swimming
Sparrow’s feet are for perching

10. Camouflage
Protective
Coloration

11. Camouflage
Protective
Coloration

12. Camouflage Protective Coloration
Camouflage in which colors and patterns of organisms match the surrounds. This helps animals hide from predators.

13. Camouflage Protective Resemblance

14. Camouflage Protective
Resemblance
Vice Roy
Monarch

15. Camouflage Protective Resemblance
Camouflage in which shapes and colors of organisms match other objects in the surroundings.
The milk snake (top) resembles the poisonous coral snake(bottom).
The vice roy butterfly (top) resembles the sour-tasting monarch (bottom).

16. Dart frogs use
warning color

17. Protective Coloration
Many animals only line of defense is their colors. The warning colors of red, yellow, orange, and bright blue warn others that these animals might be dangerous and should be avoided! These dart frogs are poisonous.

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

19. The location and size of an animals eyes aid in its survival.
Do all animals have their eyes in the same place?
How does the location of the eyes in a horse aid in survival?

20. Why are an alligator’s eyes on top of its head?

21. Which animal is a predator?
Which animal is prey?
How does the placement of their eyes aid in their survival?

22. How do these factors help animals survive?
Physical adaptations—structural, coloration, chemical defenses
Physiological adaptation
Behavioral adaptation
Instincts and Learned behavior

23. Physiological Adaptation

24. Physiological Adaptation
Jobs of the body parts controlling life process that aid in survival.
A bear’s body slows down in the winter. This helps them survive the low winter temperature and scarce food during winter months. Many know this as hibernation. Most bears do not sleep through the entire winter. They do get up and change dens, so this is not true hibernation, but a winter sleep (denning).

25. Physiological Adaptation

26. Physiological Adaptation
Jobs of the body parts controlling life process that aid in survival.
Dolphins are mammals and need to breath air. They spend their entire lives in the water and their body’s have adapted so that they can hold their breath for several minutes.

27. How do these factors help animals survive?
Physical adaptations—structural, coloration, chemical defenses
Physiological adaptation
Behavioral adaptation
Instincts and Learned behavior

28. Behavioral Adaptation

29. Behavioral Adaptation
An action that aids in survival
Clown fish seek shelter from predators in sea anemones. Sea anemones are poisonous to other marine creatures.

30. Behavioral Adaptation

31. Behavioral Adaptation
An action that aids in survival
Lions stay together in a pride. As a group they can help each other hunt, care for young, and watch for danger.

32. How do these factors help animals survive?
Physical adaptations—structural, coloration, chemical defenses
Physiological adaptation
Behavioral adaptation
Instincts and Learned behavior

33. 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.

34. I have learned to adapt to my new home.

35. I have learned to live in your backyard.

36. Learned Behavior
Humans have destroyed many animal habitats. Many animals have learned to adapt to their new surroundings. They have found shelter, food, and learned how to stay away from moving vehicles (well most of the time).

37. = happen naturally & don’t need to be learned Instinctive behaviors
Hibernating
Migrating
Finding shelter
Methods of gathering & storing food
Defending oneself
Raising young
Learned Behaviors = play fighting as cubs, using tools like twigs to get ants out of an ant pile or a rock for cracking nuts, avoiding roads, docile around humans