Adaptations

By: Lauryn Aguilar

Behavioral Adaptation
Chipmunks and why they store and collect food
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Chipmunks store food in nearby hidden food caches. They

store the food because they typically don’t store as much
fat as bears do. Chipmunks end up waking up many times
during hibernation and feed on their nearby caches. If they
didn’t have the caches, they would have to go out into the
cold and try and find food but they food would be rotten or
gone causing them to freeze trying to look for food.
 Structural Adaptation
Ducks and why they have webbed feet
Structural adaptations are relating to an
Ducks spend most of their lives in water, causing their feet to adapt and make them organism’s shape, size, or structure
webbed. The webbed feet help the duck push itself through the water. It also helps
them keep their balance on land. The feet help it swim faster away from predators
and it maximizes the duck’s movement in the water. Mallard ducks for example will
attack the predator if it feels endangered. The feet help the Mallard to swim faster to
its children if it feels like their being threatened.
 Functional
adaptations
are relation to Functional Adaptation
an organism’s
chemical Snails and why they produce a mucus
process
Snails make their slime from a special glands
to help their bodies from dying out. The
snail’s slime is naturally hygroscopic,
meaning that it attracts water. That helps the
snail stay damp through the day and helps
assist in movement, reproduction, and
breathing. It helped them when the snails
adapted from sea snails to land snails. The
water would keep the snails hydrated and
moist but now the slime helps keep them
wet. The slime also helps the snail to adhere
to surfaces as it glides along and it also
protects the snail’s foot from sharp things or
bumps.