Have you ever been

frightened by a
person or an animal
or anything?
• What did you do to fight
your fear?

• How do you feel after

fighting over that
experience?
Have you experienced being
fooled?
 ADAPTIVE
MECHANISMS
 ANIMALS USE IT FOR:

•Preparation
for attack
 ANIMALS USE IT FOR:

•Protection from predators

•Concealment or Cover
•Resting
•Food Searching
•Finding a better habitat
CAMOUFLAGE
 CAMOUFLAGE
• (French word, camoufler- to blind or veil)
• Disguise by blending or changing color similar
to that of the environment
• An animal that uses camouflage looks like
things in its environment. It might look like a
leaf, a twig, or a rock.
• Examples:
chameleon changing its skin color
white polar bear blends its white fur with snow
Camel could hardly be detected in
the desert due to its sand-colored skin
Blowfish
BLUFF
 BLUFF
• “fooling or frightening someone pretending to
be stronger or bigger
• Several organisms react to danger by making a
loud or threatening noise (dog growl,
rattlesnake rattle).
• Others puff themselves up so that they look
bigger and more threatening (cat; toads; many
baby birds; frilled lizard).
Some insects and other animals
make use of large eyespots.
Growling Dog
Frilled Lizard
Baby Birds
MIMICRY
Monarch and Viceroy Butterfly
• Animals that use mimicry use colors and
markings to look like another animal.
• Resemblance of an organism (the mimic) in
color, pattern, form, behavior, or a combination
of these to another organism or object (the
model).
• Copying another organism or object
• Cheating or impersonating (another’s shape,
size or voice)
• Examples:
- Jungle birds try to look and behave like hawks
- The walking stick was not detected because it
looks like a twig
- Some birds mimic the posture of bigger birds to
escape harm
HIBERNATION
• Act of escaping from coldness or winter
• With true hibernation, the animal appears dead.
There is no movement and it takes a long time for it
to wake up enough to even walk around.
• Hibernation is the way that animals adapt to the
climate and land around them.
• Animals hibernate because it is really hard to find
food during the winter.
• Examples: Bears, Squirrels, snakes, wolves
 ESTIVATION
OR
AESTIVATION
 Estivation
• Estivation or aestivation (from Latin aestas, summer)
• Animals that estivate spend a summer inactive and insulated
against heat to avoid the potentially harmful effects of the
season (such as the increase in temperature, or relative lack of
water)
• Act of escaping from heat and dryness
• Animals stop their daily activities by sleeping, burrowing or
hiding in caves, holes, crevices
• Animals do not move, grow or eat during estivation
• Examples: frogs, lizards, snakes, snails, bees
MIGRATION
 Why do animals migrate?
• extreme environmental conditions,
overpopulation and food shortage.
• Animals may also migrate to a certain
location to breed, as is the case with
some fish.
Wild beast in the grassland of East Africa migrate to
other places to find water and fresh green grass all
year round.

 
Swallows fly from North America and Europe to Africa
and South America in autumn
 
The African Fruit Bat
Trip
What are the different
adaptive mechanisms?

Define each
Seatwork (size4) 6. cat puffing its body
7. jungle birds try to look
1. Rattle snake creating s and behave like hawks
loud rattle to threaten
its opponent
8. Poisonous butterflies
evolved into how
2. Bears escape the
coldness of winter by
exactly non-poisonous
sleeping in a long time butterflies look.
3. Walking stick is acting 9-10: Have you applied
like a twig any of the adaptive
4. Bats fly from north to mechanisms in your
south to look for food life? Did you gain from
5. Snails spend summer it? Explain.
inactive