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Animal Adaptation Jonica Farrell

What are Adaptations

• Adaptations are traits that help
• rganisms survive.
• Body adaptations are called

physical adaptations.Physical adaptations help animals survive in there environment.Animal adaptations happen naturally.

What is mimicry

• The viceroy butterfly is

protected by mimicry.

• Mimicry occurs when one
• rganism imitates another.

Mimicry is good but it is mistaken by monarch butterfly and viceroy. Mimicry is on viceroy butterfly so it can taste good so no one eats it so they will think it is a monarch

• butterfly. Because viceroy

butterfly is poisonous.

How do animals behave

• Physical adaptations help

animals survive.

• Other kids of adaptations

involve behaviors or actions. One type of behavior is not

• learned. It is an inherited
• behavior. The simplest

inherited behavior is a reflex.

How can quick Responses help animals survive?

• Many types of animals have

special behaviors that help them .

• For example when a squid

senses danger it squirts a dark inky liquid. A puffer fish has a body covered with sharp hard

• spines. When attached or
• scared. Another prickly animal

is a porcupine. It has specialized hairs called quillls. When it is scared it puts its quills out and pokes the harming thing.