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2. 2. Why Do Animals Have Adaptations? Animals inherit special physical features and behaviours that help them survive. Can you think of any characteristics and behaviours that you have inherited?
3. 3. An adaptation can be a behaviour like a bear hibernating. Can you think of any behaviours that help animals to help survive?
4. 4. Animals also have physical adaptations Can you see the physical adaptations that the Silky Ant Eater has?
5. 5. An Adaptation is a physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce. Sometimes there are not enough resources to go around. Animals with excellent adaptations have a better chance of survival because they can get the resources they need.
6. 6. Feathers are an important adaptation. Without feathers, birds couldnt fly, no matter how light there bodies are. The shape of its beak helps a bird get food. See some examples of a birds beak.
7. 7. Other animals have adaptations that help them survive. Click on the picture to see the adaptation.
8. 8. Some animals have adaptations that help them avoid being eaten by predators. (See some examples) Bright colors may warn predators that the animal is poisonous. (See some examples) Some animals are protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. (See some examples) Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. (See some examples)
9. 9. Animals have different ways of moving. The faster they are, the more easily they can escape from their predators. Birds' wings allow them to fly away from predators that cannot fly. Fins enable fish to swim away from their enemies. Other animals can run at top speed longer than their enemies can.
10. 10. Instincts help animals meet their needs. Instincts are behaviors that are inherited. Ducklings, for example, are born with the instinct to follow their mother. By staying close to her, they get the protection and food they need.
11. 11. In places where winters are cold, many animals face a shortage of food for part of the year. Some animals deal with this food shortage by migrating. Migration is traveling in search of food or a place to reproduce. During the spring and summer, Canada geese live in Canada and the upper United States and migrate as far south as Mexico in the winter.
12. 12. Hibernation is a state of inactivity during winter. It allows animals to conserve energy. They get their energy from conserved energy.
13. 13. A B C Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. Click the that applies to the animal?
14. 14. Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. A B C Click the that applies to the animal?
15. 15. Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. A B C Click the that applies to the animal?
16. 16. Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. A B C Click the that applies to the animal?
17. 17. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct A(n) _________ is a physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce.
18. 18. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct Fins enable fish to swim away from their enemies.
19. 19. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct _______ are behaviors that are inherited and help an animal meet their needs.
20. 20. Adaptation Hibernation Migration instinct ____________ is traveling in search of food or a place to reproduce.
21. 21. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct _____________ is a state of in activity that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold.