Animal Adaptations

Several students were allowed a few minutes to explore on the web to find information regarding how animals have adapted to survive. The sites below were mostly found by using keywords searches on Yahooligans, AltaVista and HotBot. Please check the library and the CD-rom encyclopedia on theTavelli server for more information.

After exploring some of the sites below, you may want to explore web sites of other zoos and other nature education resource centers.

Oakland Zoo - Animals A to Z - See Section V. - Special Adaptations
Winter Animals
Tundra Adaptations Investigation: Size and Heat -Bureau of Land Management Environmental Education Homepage - Alaska's Desert
Plant and Animal Adaptations to the Cold
Examples of Adaptations - read #2 in Nature Activites
North American Elk - Can you identify the adaptations described in this short paragraph?
Platypus - adaptations
Sea World - choose an animal and there should be a Physical Characteristics and Special Adaptations section
Survival in the Sea -just a film description, but lists some adaptations
Grizzly Bear Click on Adaptation.
Activity Corner-Animal Adaptations - a teacher's lesson plan
Lesson Plan from Idaho - for a video, but has good ideas
Virtual Anartica
How Animals Adapt to Winter - first grade project

College Level

Analysis of Adaptation - contains good definition of adaptation
Adaptation - great site, lots of examples of adaptations
THERMAL ADAPTATION - Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki Univ.
What is the Natural environment? How Does it Affect Life?
Adaptationfrom Principia Cybernetica Web Dictionary
Oxidative stress: animal adaptations in nature - K.B. Storey, Institute of Biochemistry and Department of Biology, Carleton University
Innate vs. Learned

Zoos

Curriculum