Name: Balance in Nature
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 55 s
Description: The future of humans is doomed if immediate action is not taken. Environmental balance is the only way humans can prevent disaster. Watch and learn about env...

Question

A fish adapts itself to live in water. Likewise, different animals adapt themselves to their surroundings.

How do animals adapt themselves to their surroundings?

Accepted Answer

The specific features or habits that enable an organism to live in its habitat are called adaptations. Animals adapt themselves according to their surroundings for their survival, to withstand weather, etc. Adaptations lead to the evolution of organisms.

Adaptions in animals can be described under the below-mentioned headings:

Structural adaptions: Animals live in different habitats, such as aquatic, terrestrial, dual habitat, etc. Accordingly, they have specific body shapes, such as the fishes live in water and have a streamlined body and have fins. Amphibians have specific features to live both in water and on land.

Feeding adaptions: Carnivores have large and well-developed canines (types of teeth used for tearing the flesh), on contrary, herbivores have blunt canines.

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