Animals and Adaptation From: http://www.learninghaven.com/science/articles/animals_and_adaptation.htm In order for animals to survive, they need to be able to adapt. In this lesson we will look at the types of adaptations animals can and do make. In a perfect world, animals would not need to adapt. However, with constant changes to their environment, food chain and climate, animals must adapt or face extinction. There are many examples of animals facing extinction.
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Many people think that flying squirrels, flying possums and colugos (flying lemurs, which actually aren't even lemurs) can fly. But, the can't. They can only glide for limited distances. The only mammal that is actually capable of powered flight is the bat. All bats belong to the order Chiroptera. The word Chiroptera comes from the Greek words cheir meaning hand and pteron, which means wing because the structure of the open wing is very similar to an outspread human hand.
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: Read your quote carefully (it will be helpful to find it in the book so you know the context). Answer the questions with as many relevant ideas as your group can produce. You will be presenting your analysis to the whole class—your job is to teach them. p. 90-91. “So this is a meeting to find out what’s what.
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Structural Adaptations: • They are white on the front and black on the back. In water, the only place they are really at risk from predators, this gives them camouflage. From below they are white and cannot be easily seen against the lighter surface of the sea. From above they blend in with the darker depths.
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You will be presenting your analysis to the whole class—your job is to teach them. p. 83. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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People and other animals such as birds and fish, know when the laying season is and where the eggs will be laid. The female turtles struggle up the beach to a place above the high water mark. There they dig a shallow pit with their fore flippers, and lie in it.
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This is called lift.. Bats move forward (called thrust) by changing the shape of the membrane between the second and fifth fingers (dactylopatagium). With their flexible wings, bats can change the degree and direction of lift and thrust very quickly by positioning their wings into different shapes.
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But some bats, like some species of horseshoe bat and the common vampire bat, can take off from the ground. Most bats land by slowing down until they stall and grabbing hold of a branch or other surface. Common vampire bats land on the ground, so they can sneak up on their prey.
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Many species of flower-visiting bats and some species that take animal prey from the ground can hover. Bats can also move around on the ground. The first digit of the bat wing (similar to our thumb) is small and clawed. Bats use it to climb or to walk on the ground.
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Answer the questions with as many relevant ideas as your group can produce. You will be presenting your analysis to the whole class—your job is to teach them. p. 85. Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him.
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what mammal is capable of grabbing
Vampire bat mammal is capable of grabbing. A vampire bat is a mammal that is capable of grabbing.