Think about the way you dress in the winter.

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Think about the way you dress in the winter.

• You wear warm clothes, and maybe even a hat and
  mittens to protect yourself from the weather.

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Think about the way you dress when you and your
buddies play paintball.

• Covers head, shoulders,
  upper arms torso
• Fits over paint ball mask
• Designed to add natural
  vegetation

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The way you dress in the winter, as well as the
way you dress for paintball are both types of

• Adaptations!

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Animal Adaptations

• What is an adaptation?
• An adaptation is something that helps animals
  survive better.

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We can separate adaptations into two categories

• A
• D
• A
• P
• T
• A
• T
• I
• O
• N
• S

• Physical
• And
• Behavioral

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Physical Adaptations

• are body structures that allow an animal to find
  consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce
  its species.

Hey! Im a walking stick. I look just like a
stick youd find on the ground.

• Physical adaptations
• help an animal survive in its environment.

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Lets begin w/Physical Adaptations

• Some examples are

• Camouflage
• Mimicry
• Chemical defenses
• Body coverings parts

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Camouflage
Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
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Camouflage

• Have you ever wondered why animals have spots,
  strips, or certain colors?
• Sometimes an animals colors can be a difference
  between life and death.
• Animals use their colors to blend into the
  environment.

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• The chameleon can change its color to match its
  surroundings.
• Can YOU do that?

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Find the critters!
See if you can find the camouflaged animals in
these pictures. The animals you are looking for
are a deer, frog, and quail.
Quail
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Look closely to find this animal!
Deer!
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Can you see the frog?
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Mimicry

• Animals may also try to look like another
  animals.
• For example, non poisonous snakes will rattle
  their tale and flatten their head to look
  poisonous to a predator.
• This is called Mimicry, where an animal tries to
  mimic or copy another.

Which snake is poisonous?
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Other forms of mimicry

• The monarch butterfly is toxic and very nasty to
  eat.
• Its bright orange coloration is a warning to
  birds to leave it alone.
• The non-toxic viceroy butterfly has developed
  colors and wing patterns that are very similar to
  those of the monarch
• So most birds wont take a chance by
  taste-testing it!

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Which is the monarch andWhich is the viceroy?
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Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)
Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)
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Physical adaptationsBody coverings parts
(claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)

• The elephants trunk is a physical adaptation
  that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to
  pick things up.

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Now lets learn about Behavioral Adaptations

• Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond
  to life needs.

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Behavioral Adaptations are animals actions.

• Each organism has unique methods of adapting to
  its environment by means of different actions.

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We can divide Behavioral Adaptations into two
groups
Learned
Instinctive

• These behaviors happen naturally dont have to
  be learned
• 
  

• These behaviors must be taught.

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Instinctive Behaviors
happen naturally dont need to learned

• Methods of gathering storing food

Finding shelter
Raising young
Defending oneself
Finding shelter
Migrating
Hibernating
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Learned Behaviors

• Obtained by interacting with the environment and
  cannot be passed on to the next generation except
  by teaching.

Obtained by interacting with the environment
and cannot be passed on to the next generation
except by teaching.
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In this lesson, we have learned about animal
adaptations.

• There are 2 ways to describe adaptations

Physical
Behavior
and