Animal adaptations are split into two categories, physical and behavioral. Physical adaptations are body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and reproduce its species.Four types of structural, or physical adaptations include camouflage, mimicry, skunks spraying you, and body coverings and parts. Camouflage is the use of color in a surrounding to blend in. Mimicry is looking or sounding like another organism. For instance, a viceroy butterfly makes itself look like a monarch to make predators think it is poisonous but it really isn't. Skunks spray and use there chemical defense to protect itself or to get away. An example of body parts as an adaptation is an elephants trunk that helps them eat, drink, clean themselves, and pick up things. Behavioral adaptations are the actions an animal makes that allows it to respond to basic needs. Examples of behavioral adaptations include storing food, migrating, hibernating, and raising young. When a squirrel stores nhuts before winter it is an instinctive adaptation, meaning that they already know to do that when born. Migrating is an instinctive adaptation that birds have to fly to certain locations depending on weather. Hibernating is a common adaptations that many animals including snakes, bear and many more do during winter in order to survive through the winter. Mothers raising there babies, chicks, puppies, ect. Is an instinctive behavior that almost every animal has.

Animal Adaptations