Behavioral and structural adaptations

Which of these is a behavioral adaptation?

• A frog's light-colored belly makes it harder for a predatory fish to see it against sunlight

• A snake pretends as dead to trick the predator.

• The scarlet king snake looks very much like the poisonous coral snake.

• A treehopper on a leaf or twig resembles a thorn.

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Behavior adaptations involves some part of an animal's body, such as the size or shape of the teeth, the animal's body covering, or the way the animal moves.

• True

• False

Choose the ones that are structural adaptations

• Hibernation in bears

• Claws in Ostrich

• Webbed feet of duck

• An opossum playing dead

There are two types of behavioral adaptations...

• Instinct (innate) and learned behavior

• Structural and behavioral

• Genetic and environmental

• Mutations and natural selection

An adaptation where an animal or a group of animals travel a long distance to a new location

• Hibernation

• Migration

• Courtship

• Hunting in groups

A change in behavior that comes from experience and is not present in an animal from birth.

• Learned behavior

• instinctive behavior

• Adaptational behavior

• Builted behavior

Special adaptation in some animals to survive harsh and cold climate conditions in the winter.

• Mimicry:

• Behavior

• Migration

• Hibernation

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A behavior that an animal performs before mating to attract females.

• Instinctive behavior

• Courtship

• Selection

• Migration

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