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Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?

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Know It or Learn It?


• A behavior is anything an organism does.

• Learned behaviors are behaviors that come from watching other animals or through experience.

• Young animals learn how to behave by watching and copying adults.

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• An instinct is a behavior that an animal knows without learning it.

• Animals are born with instincts.

• Behaviors are adaptations that may help an animal survive its environment.




• A mother lion teachers her cubs to hunt.

• Searching for food is an instinct.

• Knowing how to find and catch food is something cubs learn by copying their parents.




• A mother sea turtle buries her eggs in the sand. When the baby turtles hatch at night, they move toward the bright ocean. Both behaviors are instincts.


Finding Food


• Every animal looks for food when it’s hungry. This is an instinctual behavior.

• Some animals learn from watching their parents or other adults. But some animals can learn by themselves, too.

• Bears wait for fish to swim upstream to catch them. This is a learned behavior.


Finding Food





Finding Shelter


• Birds learn to build nests on buildings when trees are cut down.

• A gopher knows to use its claws to dig into the ground to make a shelter for itself.


Finding Food



Hibernation


• Animals respond to cold winter weather in different ways.

• Some animals find food or eat food they have hidden.

• Other animals hibernate, or go into a deep, sleeplike state that helps them survive the cold winter conditions. Hibernating is an instinctive behavior.


Hibernation


• During hibernation, normal body activities slow down. The heart beats slowly, and breathing almost stops.

• A hibernating animal doesn’t use much energy, because the body is barely working.

• There is enough fat stored in the animal’s body to keep it alive through the winter.


Hibernation



Migration


• Animals migrate when they move a long distance as a group from one region to another and back.

• Many animals, including birds and fish, migrate.

• The path the animals take is learned, but knowing when to migrate is an instinct.


Migration


• Whales and some other animals teach their young the way to go.

• Whales swim to a warm place to mate.

• Whales swim to a different spot to give birth. Then they swim back to where they were to find food.


Migration


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