1. Adaptations

2. Animal Traits Different animals have different shapes and sizes
They may even have different body parts
Each feature is important to the survival of the specific animal
Things like body types are inherited from the animal’s parents
Traits are body features that an animal inherits
Are the features always physical things?

3. Behavioral Traits
Instincts
Migrating
Hibernating

4. Instincts vs. Learned Behaviors
Instincts are behaviors that animals are born to know how to do.
Nest-making
Taking care of young
Defending oneself
Learned behaviors are taught behaviors that are essential to the animal’s survival.
These behaviors may also be learned through experience.
Bears teach their cubs to hunt
If an animal eats a bug that doesn’t taste good, he less likely to do it again.

5. Which type? Learned Behaviors Instincts Nest-making Protecting itself
Bird Singing
Cub learning to hunt
Raising young

6. Hibernate
When animals enter a deep sleep in which life activities slow down
Why do animals do this?
The animals cannot find enough food to keep their bodies warm during the winter
In the fall animals eat a lot of food to help them survive through the long winter
Heartbeat slows
Body temperature drops
Breathing slows
Bats, chipmunk, bears

7. Migrate
When animals travel as a group from one place to live in another
Many birds fly south in the fall to spend the winter in warmer places
Why do they migrate?
Gray whales, monarch butterflies, geese, ducks, caribou
Why doesn’t a small herd of caribou migrate?

8. Structural Adaptations

9. What are structural adaptations?
Adaptations that an animal posses that helps him survive in its habitat.
Reasons animals adapt
Food
Climate
Get oxygen
Protection from Predators
Raise its young

10. Camouflage
A natural disguise some animals have to help them blend in with their surroundings
Colors, patterns, shapes
Some animals that live in the snow have white coat to provide camouflage
Polar bears, arctic foxes, snowshoe rabbits, chameleon, frogs, fish, bugs

11. Mimicry
An animal’s imitation of another animal or of an object in order to avoid predators
Some animals have markings that tell animals other animals that they are not good to eat
Monarch and viceroy butterflies

12. Why do octopuses change color?
Protection from predators

13. Why do kangaroos have pouches?
Raising their young

14. Why do anteaters have long snouts?
Food

15. Why do kangaroo rats only come out at night in the desert?
Climate

16. Why do frogs have gills when they are young and lungs when they get older?
Oxygen