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Oh, welcome to the same stories Mr Going today.
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We're gonna talk about animal adaptations, things that animals do
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or have evolved over time to do that helped them
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survive in their surroundings or habitats.
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Now there are three major types of animal adaptations.
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There's the body part at adaptations, body covering adaptations and
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behavior adaptations.
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And we're gonna talk about examples of all this.
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But what does that all mean?
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It just means that is different things that animals either
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do or their species has evolved over time, that they've
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developed outer behaviors or coverings that actually helped them survive
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in their surroundings, whether they're predator or that their prey
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predator protecting them as they try to find their prey
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and pray protected them actually from predators, but also other
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things that help them survive in the conditions of the
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habitats they live.
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So the first thing we're going to talk about is
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body part adaptation.
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What have different species done animals done to change their
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behavior or something that there be their bodies actually do
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that helped them survive.
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A really good example of this is the pelican.
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If you look at the shape of the pelicans beak
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it's almost designed like a net.
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So when it dives into the water and scoops down,
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it's able to catch fish much easier, allowing them to
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eat more.
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Another adaptation, Body adaptation, is the nose of the ant
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eater or the mouth of the snout of the ant
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eater that allows it to get down into those ant
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colony or the ant holes and actually work its tongue
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to actually eat a lot more food.
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Another at a body adaptation is the armadillo and has
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a covering.
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A lot of people refer to it as the armadillos
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armor. It's Ah, very hard outer shell that protects it
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from being eaten by predators and also protects it from
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the temperature of thehunt.
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It tats and much It lives another adaptation.
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If you look at the hawk, the shape of its
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beak and its talents, allow it to be a much
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stronger and swifter predator in scooping down and grabbing its
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prey very quickly because of one of its prey.
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Moves just as quickly as a hop of the hawk
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actually is pastor.
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So if we then move on to some body covering
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adaptations and think about it covering, it's a lot like
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our skin of our body or a bullet is our
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skin is our body covering.
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But animals have adapted different body coverings as a way
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of protection or hiding.
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If you look at the tree bark moth, you almost
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can't see it.
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I remember another way to look.
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Body coverings are a way of camouflaging hiding in its
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surrounding it.
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You almost can't even see it.
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You have to look so hard.
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Another is, um, cheetah out in the grasslands, protecting itself
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so that the coloring will blend into its surroundings.
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Um, the frogs are actually, or toads tend to do
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a lot of this.
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A lot of the things that we find and especially
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the tempered forest habitats to a lot of camouflaging to
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blend in.
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It's how they survive.
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If I'm walking through the forest, I'm pretty sure I
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could walk by 100 of these and not even noticed.
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Um, here's another example of body coverings, the infamous zebra.
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But zebra stripes actually help it blend in in its
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habitat, so it isn't so obvious as if it was
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standing out in a field where there was nothing for
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it to hide behind.
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And then again Here's another frog blending into its environment
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again. You almost can't see it.
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It's pretty, pretty amazing.
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And even in our ocean habitats, um, we've got some
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creature sea creatures.
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I believe this is an octopus.
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You basically and maybe really tough to see this.
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If you were a diver, you may swim by.
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And if you were a predator, you may not even
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see him.
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Are her hiding some?
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Now? What does it mean when we talk about behavior
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adaptations? And this is a little bit, uh, harder to
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see because body coverings is obvious.
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You know you, when they're blending in, it's it's easy
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to see.
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But if we talk about body or behavior adaptations, a
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good example of this the puffer fish, normal looking or
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normal looking fish until it feels threatened.
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And then it actually inflates its body to become bigger
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and scarier and to ward off its prey to protect
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itself. Another behavior adaptation.
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Talking about fish is fish tend to swim, and schools
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consider a school a big group of fish, adding to
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that protective layer that way of a predator's coming in.
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It doesn't quite know where to go and where to
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attack it is kind of confusing.
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One of the cool things I love about the possum
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is it has a behavior adaptation of what we call
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playing dead.
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Now I'm gonna show you a picture, and I'm just
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gonna let you know the possum's not dead.
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But when it feels threatened or it feels in danger,
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it basically lays down on the ground and acts like
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it is dead.
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Because animals in the natural world don't want to eat.
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If they're not accustomed to it.
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Say like a vulture eats a dead animal.
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Ah, lot of regular are other animals won't eat.
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Pray that urban their prey that's already dead.
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They want it to be fresh.
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So a possible does this play dead trick where it
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actually falls over and pretends like it's dead and a
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lot of times it will be left alone.
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Um, so I want you to do some Margaret thinking
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or researcher.
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And what other animals can you think of that?
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Use adaptations for survival?
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Do our dogs and cats in our houses do anything
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to change?
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Or have they adapted over centuries of time Thio adapt
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to their habitats And what are the animals around in
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our neighborhoods or in the habitats that we live that
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do this to, you know, Have they changed their body
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coverings? Have they changed the behavior adaptations?
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Do they have body part adaptations?
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Look around.
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Next time you're if you get to the chance to
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go to a zoo, look through the different exhibits and
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look at the animals that were there and trying to
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figure out what adaptations they have actually made for their
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survival here on Earth.
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So and think about what thinks of humans done to
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adapt to our habitats.
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We've done a lot of other things, but a little
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bit different than the animals around us.
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But it's kind of a good conversation, and I look
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forward to talking with you.