Sea horses have adapted to better survive in their habitat by using special skills they have and their body parts to help them thrive in their habitat. Adapting means to change overtime to better survive in the environment. All animals adapt to their lifestyle in some way. Sea horses can camouflage themselves to help survive in their environment. In paragraph 3 of "Hold Your Sea Horses!" sentence 3 states, "They can change colors to camouflage themselves, and feature bumps called tubercles that also help them blend in." Sea horses can blend themselves in to help hide themselves from predators, and also to help them not be seen when they are stalking their prey. Another way sea horses have adapted to survive is they have bony plates instead
Seahorses are a prime example of species whose atypical biology and unusual global distribution leads to a series of evolutionary questions. Seahorses (genus Hippocampus) are a marine species that have extensively been studied because of their abnormal behaviors in the marine environment compared to other marine creatures. Many of the seahorse species have large ranges, both longitudinally (over a great horizontal distance across the ocean), and latitudinal (great vertical distance within the ocean), regardless of the fact that they are characterized as weak swimmers and lack any large structural fins for efficient swimming (Lourie et al., 1999a). Although they do have these large range environments, seahorses
The Narwhal is a whale and is also known as the unicorn of the sea. It is in the family of bottlenose dolphins, orcas, and Belugas (World Wildlife Fund). The scientific name for the Narwhal is Monodon monoceros and it is Greek meaning one-tooth, one-horn. It can grow up to 13-16 feet in length and weighs almost 2 tons (4,000 pounds). The region they are usually located is around the Arctic waters of Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. They are known as unicorns of the sea because they have a tusk, one of their teeth, coming out of the front of the skull. According to the World Wildlife fund (2014), “Males most commonly have tusks, and some may even have two. The tusk, which can grow as long as 10 feet, is actually an enlarged tooth.” The female does not usually grow tusks. The tusks are ivory, and that is one major reason why Narwhals are hunted since ivory is worth a lot of money.
The Dwarf Seahorse’s predators include tunas, dorados, skates and rays, penguins, crabs, and water birds. Young dwarf’s are at the risk of at t...
“Seeing Through Sound: Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Perceive the Spatial Structure of Objects Through Echolocation”, is a research article which explores how dolphins “see” using echoic-visual and visual-echoic matching. They took various structures made out of PVC and presented each to the dolphin either only visual or only by echolocation. Visual-only objects were displayed in the air so echolocation could not be used and echolocation-only objects were place in the box that was echoically invisible. The dolphin would have to view the object either visually or echoically and have to find its match using the alternative. There were a total of 613 visual-echoic and 606 echoic-visual trials. The results were nearly always correct except for two sets in the echoic-visual trials and 6 sets in the visual-echoic trials.
Some seahorses, have a shape, size and color that allows them to blend in perfectly with their habitat. Others,
A bottlenose dolphin is an endothermic mammal that gives birth to live young. Bottlenose dolphins are the most common and well known type of dolphin. The name bottlenose describes this species of dolphin as they have a short, stubby beak (bottle-like shape). A bottlenose dolphin is a cetacean, which means it is a marine mammal. They are also one of the most-commonly studied cetacean because they live near coasts and adjust well to captivity. It’s Genus and Species names are; Tursiops Truncatus.
The evolution of horses over the last 50 million years, is remarkable really. Horses used to look so different back then, its amazing to look at the difference now. Because there’s so much information on each and every type of horse that the modern horse started off as and a lot of researchers have put the information on timelines and graphs for people to view. It kinda resembles a tree if you look at the picture. It has so many different branches. To make this easy to understand this paper will go over a view of the many different forms of horse, including how old they are and what they looked like.
Many cephalopods have camouflage techniques and use aposematic coloring as well. The two methods they can use to accomplish this kind of coloring are either through chromatophores and pigments or structural reflectors (Mathger et al., 2012). Chromatophores are organs that have pigment sacs.
environments. Evolution is the idea that while organisms exhibit certain traits, they are not fixed and are able to be altered through progressive adaptation. Adaptation occurs through the passing of traits from an organism pa...
The equestrian world is filled with various disciplines, from english to western, and different ideals to a trained horse. What creates major disputes between riders is the way of training that others riders practice on their horse. What might be perfectly fine for someone might seem like abuse for others. The truth is, there’s a fine line between training and abuse. Horses should be trained and be pushed less harshly since it can greatly damage their health, lead to bad horsemanship, and won’t develop the relationship between horse and rider.
Adaptation is a process where an animal or plant goes through a genetic mutation so it can be better fitted in the environment. An example of adaptation are the plants that live in hot and dry deserts. The plants have to go through a mutation where it is able to adapt to the hot climate. The plants are able to adapt in the desert because the plants
...for more accurate predictions of how species will evolve and whether or not certain species will survive and what adaptations could promote or inhibit that process. There are different methods of adaptation available for animals and plants to employ in nature. Thus, exploring adaptations during our lectures would grant us better insight into what caused certain things to demonstrate specific adaptations and would aid in the explanation and expansion of convergent evolution.
In textbooks, adaptation, specifically biological adaptation, is usually defined as the method an organism adopts to better survive in its environment and reproduce. In scholarly papers, however, adaptation isn’t always as simple as that. An adaptation can be a structure that gives advantage to an organism over other similar organisms, or a behavior that helps the organism survive in its environment against predators. Sometimes even the adaptation itself wasn’t originally intended for its current biological role, or how it is used in the organism’s environment; this adaptation is sometimes called preadaptation (Kardong, 2006). Because it is difficult to identify which structures are adaptations and which are preadaptations, there is much controversy over the subject in the scholarly world. Often it is helpful to study these adaptations in ancient animals, but as most of these are extinct, scientists can only gather information from their close relatives, and even these aren’t conclusive enough.
There are many reasons why dolphins are very intelligent animals, there are 33 different types of marine dolphins, 4 types of river dolphins, and 6 types of porpoises (dolphins are mammals). Some of the dolphinspeople may think they would be whales, because of their looks, but they are dolphins. Dolphins have a strong behavior; they are very social and travel in groups together. They commonly swim in groups of 2-15 . Severalof different groups of dolphins may temporarily join, for several minutes or hours. In the open waters of theocean, some dolphins will leave their group and change associates and adapt with different dolphins threw outtime (Dolphins communication). In the groups, some members will form a strong bond with one another in thepod. The sizes of the groups tend to increase with the water depth of the ocean and the openness of the habitat, this usually happens when protection with strong with each other and foraging st...
Adaptation is a feature of an organism that enables it to live in a particular habitat. Adaptation involves both structural as well as functional changes. Birds lead an aerial mode of life. To lead a successful aerial mode of life, birds have undergone various modifications. These modifications are known as ‘flight adaptations. Flight adaptations involve morphological, anatomical as well as embryological modifications.