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Adaptation to Environment In Animals - Animals too have to face the problem of water scarcity or abundance. They also have to meet the various vagaries of nature. So, for their survival under these conditions, animals have developed a number of adaptations to..

Animals too have to face the problem of water scarcity or abundance. They also have to meet the various vagaries of nature. So, for their survival under these conditions, animals have developed a number of adaptations to meet the challenge..

Adaptations for flight are called as volant adaptations. Bats, birds and insects are well adapted for an active fligh..

Environment includes all the factors that affect the form and growth of the organism. Habitat is the term given to the special environment in which an organism lives and grows. In order to survive, plants and animals develop special features called adaptive chara..

Introduction - Environment is defined as the surroundings in which the organism lives. The environment may be the physical environment, the chemical environment or the biological environment. Thus, the environment has two components - abio..

Summary - Environment is defined as the surroundings in which the organism lives. It has two components - abiotic and biotic. The abiotic environment includes the air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere) and land (lithosphere). The biotic environment includes the plants, ..

Lastly, we come to the nature and wildlife enthusiasts who are not in any way dependent on the forests. Environmentalists and Nature Conservationists, NGOs like the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), International Union for Conservation of Nature..

Whales Several members of the animal kingdom belong to this group. They may be fresh water or marine forms. Sponges, molluscs and Echinoderms are invertebrates that are aquatic. Amongst the vertebrates, fishes, whales and dolphins exhibit a number of adaptive features for their life in..

Carbon dioxide and water are the by-products of catabolism of all varieties of foodstuffs. In lower animals carbon dioxide is eliminated directly into the environment through the body surface. In higher animals it is excreted out along with the exhaled air throug..

Animals are different from plants because of their ability of locomotion. This ability probably developed as they have to search for food, unlike the plants that are autotrophic. Since they move from one place to another, the animals have to continuously encounter changes ..