Animals and their Adaptations

By Hayley Goodfellow

Tiger Type of Adaptation: Structural Adaptation: What the Adaptation is: Striped CoatHow does the adaptation help it to survive: The tiger's striped coat helps them blend in well with the sunlight that comes through the trees to the jungle floor. The tiger's camouflage to their surroundings is greater because the striping also helps break up their body shape, making them difficult to detect from their prey.

Type of Adaptation: Behavioural What is the Adaptation: Very strong sense of hearingHow does the adaptation help it to survive: The tiger's sense of hearing is so sharp that they are capable of hearing sound waves below the range of normally audible sound. Tigers use infrasound to communicate over long distances such as dense forest vegetation because the sound is capable of passing through trees and mountains. Their strong sense of hearing can be used to hear incoming enemies or prey.

Cobra Lily/ Pitcher PlantType of Adaptation: Structural Adaptation What the Adaption is: Flower growthHow does it help the plant to survive: Flowers growing on a plant is usually a welcoming and growing peaceful plant meaning that insects can stop to rest on this carnivorous plant in which the plant would drown the insects which is the way that the flower digests its food. It adapted to finding its nitrogen requirements through carnivory, which helps to make up for the lack of available nitrogen in some habitats.

Type of Adaptation: What the Adaption is: Survive Ragging TemperaturesHow does it help the plant to survive: The cobra lily is able to survive fire by regenerating from its roots, but despite this important role the roots are very delicate. While the temperatures in much of the species range can exceed 25 °C. The plant roots die after exposure to temperatures not much higher than 10 °C. Temperature plays a large part in the functioning of all plants, but it is very rare for individual organs to have such different temperature characteristics.