Unusual adaptations

By Tyler Chomyn

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Giant Pandas

Giant Pandas live in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu province. Giant pandas live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, at elevations between 5000 and 10 000 feet.

Habitat

A wild giant panda’s diet is 99% bamboo. The balance consists of other grasses and occasional small rodents or musk deer fawns. In zoos, giant pandas eat bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a special high-fiber biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.

Food Source

An extra “thumb” to help hold the bamboo. The extra thumb is actually the radial semisoid bone.

Super strong jaw muscles and huge molars to crush the bamboo.

Thick fur to survive in cool forests.

Structural Adaptations

Pandas relocate to lower altitudes during winter and spring.

Pandas do not hibernate like other bears.Pandas have the ability to climb trees

Behavioral Adaptations

Bald Eagles

Bald eagles live near large bodies of water like lakes, marshes, seacoasts, and rivers.

Their range is the border of Mexico through the USA and Canada. They're extremely populous in the state of Alaska!!

Habitat

Bald eagles love fish!!! When fish aren’t available, they’ll eat whatever they can including tiny birds, rodents, and dead meat.

Bald eagles aren’t afraid to steal food from other birds.

Food Source

The bald eagle has extremely sharp talons to seize its prey.

The bald eagles skull is designed for vision in daylight.

The bald eagles wings are big enough to carry it self and a really big fish!

Structural Adaptation

Bald eagles have keen eyes alert for feeding opportunities.

Some bald eagles migrate to Mexico.


Great White Sharks

Great white sharks can be found in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, California to Alaska, the east coast of USA and the Gulf coast, Hawaii, most of South America, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa to Scandinavia, Japan and the eastern coastline of China and southern Russia.

Habitat

SealsSea lionsWhale carcassesPorpoises Other fish

Food Sources

The lower teeth stab into and hold secure a food item. The saw-like upper teeth gouge out a hunk of flesh.

Well sure, all fish has gills, but the Great White are exceptionally large.

Structural Adaptations

A great white shark has a strong sense of smell.

The great white shark live and hunt by them selves instead of a group.


http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandaFacts/default.cfm

http://www.giantpandaonline.org/naturalhistory/description.htm

http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/giantpanda/ecology.html

http://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Wildlife-Library/Birds/Bald-Eagle.aspx

http://www.google.ca/

Bibliography















http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/eagle/Adaptations.html

http://www.ultimate-animals.com/articles/Great-White-Sharks-Lifespan.htm

http://www.divingwithsharks.com/shark-info/facts-gws.html

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/white_shark/adaptations.htm

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