Adaptations of the Deep

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Adaptations of the Deep

• By Fiorella Garcia
• August/September 2005

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What is Adaptation?

• An adaptation is a
• change that happens
• to an animal. It could be
• helpful or not.
• A helpful adaptation is
• camouflage because it
• helps the animal not to
• be seen by their predator.
• Extinction happens in a lot
• of occasions too, because
• the animal
• cant change like the
• weather changes in their
• environment.

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General Information about Bottlenose Dolphins

• Bottlenose dolphins grow mostly 12 feet.
• They can live mostly
• 25 years.
• Dolphins lives in pods, there are
• mostly 12 dolphin s in each pod.
• Dolphins are mostly found in
• tropical temperate waters.

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Bottlenose Dolphins Adaptations

• Dolphins dive a lot so
• they can get fishes.
• Often this pods travel
• together to make a group
• of more than 100 animals.
• Bottlenose Dolphins are
• very adapted to aquariums
• and people.

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Harp Seals General Information

• In late winter, females climb a chunk of ice to
  give birth.
• A seal pup is born with a fluffy white coat but
  without blubber.
• The pup keeps the coat until blubber begins to
  form.
• In 3 weeks they can weight more than 80 pounds.

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Harp Seal Adaptations

• Its speed in the water allows
• them to escape from their
• predator, the polar bear.
• With their flat back teeth
• they can crash the shells.
• They use their sharp claws
• on their front flippers to pull
  
• themselves of and across the
• ice.
• Harp seals are well adapted
• to life in the ice.

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Galapagos Penguins General Information

• Galapagos Penguins are the smallest population of
  penguins.
• Each year penguins go to the sea and then
  shruggle to shore to mate and lay eggs.
• Penguins eat fish, krill and squid.

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Galapagos Penguin Adaptations

• All the penguins have a
• breeding season, the
• Galapagos penguin don't,
• and that helps them to have
• a little bit of more population.
• Their powerful slippers give
• them the ability to dive and hunt
• in ocean depths were no birds
• can go.
• With their black back it helps
• them so its predator cant see
• them in the oceans.

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