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How do adaptations help animals?
Ch. 2 Lesson 3
adaptation
• trait that helps an animal meet its needs in the place where it lives
inherited adaptation
• passed on from parents to their young (offspring)
• examples: pelican’s feet & bills
PIGEONS be warned – never cross a hungry pelican.
Adaptations for getting food
Adaptations for protection
1. bird’s bill 1. camouflage2. feet 2. armor3. teeth 3. poison
4. mimicry
Adaptations for Getting Food
A duck walks into a drug store and buys a Chapstick. The clerk says, "Will that be cash or charge?"
The duck says, "Just put it on my bill!"
1. bird beaks
2. bird feet
Adaptations for Protection
• allows animal to blend in allows animal to blend in with its environment so with its environment so they are hard to spotthey are hard to spot
camouflagecamouflage
Adaptations for ProtectionARMOR- Spikes and horns protect
this horned lizard.
Lionfish use poison to protect themselves.
mimicry• harmless
animal copies a more dangerous animal
Behaviors
instinct
• behavior an animal is born able to doBaby birds are born knowing how to open
their mouth for food.
migrate• behavior when animals
move as seasons change
Monarch butterfly
migration
hibernate
• behavior when animal’s body system slows down to save energy
Bats hibernate during the winter months when food is hard to find.
learned behaviors
• learned from parents or other adults
An adult chimp shows a young chimp how to dig for insects.
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trait that helps an animal meet its needs in the place
where it lives• dpaintatoa _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
adaptation
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adaptation that allows an animal adaptation that allows an animal to blend in with its environment to blend in with its environment
so it is hard to spotso it is hard to spot
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camouflage
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harmless animal copies a more dangerous animal
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mimicry
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behavior when animals move as seasons change
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migrate
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behavior an animal is born able to do
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instinct
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behavior when animal’s body system slows down to save
energy• bnahreite _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
hibernate
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