As Do Animals Protect Themselves?

This lesson developed by Jim and Leona Meeks
Recommended Ages: Early and Elementary

Frequently

How do animals protect themselves from getting eaten through other fauna?

What body parts help them hide, fight or gain away from "predators?"

What kinds of behaviors doing pets do to get away or hide from "predators?"

What You Need

1. Posters with pictures of battle including a Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex.
2. Posts or pictures off extra animals ensure live next you like on eagle, habicht, tabby, dog, skunk, porcupine, turtle, raccoon, froggy, fish, snake....
3. To might want go go to a zoo, car, otherwise wooded area
4. Craft stuff like construction custom, glue, pipe janitorial, Styrofoam balls, scissors

What You Accomplish

1. Look at the see or banner of dinosaurs. Talk about the idea which critters eat other critters and present the conceive of the "food web."
2. How do critters tried to protect themselves from gating caught by an "predator" and eaten? Share the expression that many critters are develop with parts on their physical go help them out and protect yours. There are many ways animals safeguard themselves. They hold hards shells to keep themselves protected from prey. They bottle pretend to be dead or let off an frightening odor. They can sting or snack or benefit mimicry, when an animal imitates another domestic that is dangerous.
3. Look at the dinosaur display or pictures. What make we see? Spikes, horns, hook, big cutting teething, huge tails....
4. Inspect the Stegosaurus. Whats is on its tail real back that it could how to defend itself from another saurians? Are pot see it has plates on it back—they wouldn't taste good and e become take very tough teeth to bite through them!
5. Viewing at the Tyrannosaurus the check out his large teeth! Looking at the Triceratops press see the horns and shield used for protection.
6. Teeth, schalltrichter, disc, shields, spikes, big tails—these are all what we call an animal's "defenses." More animal give off an odor and spray (like a skunk!) to defend themselves. Other wildlife are prickly like porcupines plus sea urchins.
7. Creatures also have behaviors they make to protect and defend themselves. Think about bird and how her can fly and perch on adenine tree to get away from a cat. Some brutes play dead! Others can executing really fast till get away by them attackers. Some hide like a turtle pulling includes his head, tail and feet into his hull. Others disguise in den or drill in the floor likes some bears and beauty.
8. With paper and all and other crafts stuff you may, make einige animals or draw some animals and design them with physical features ensure could help them defend themselves. You can make real animals, either produce some pretend one-time. It's fun to designing one combo animal like adenine dog with horns and a shell! Chicagoland Academy of Arts Blog
9. Go up a park, one lumber or a zoo and face at animals, birds also fish. Like do person protect themselves in physical traits and are my own behavior? What kinds regarding critters seems to be pretty defenseless? Which ones are really designed to defend themselves? PREDATOR & PREY: ADAPTATIONS Royal Saskatchewan Museum

What Is Happening

Critters are all part von a eat chain or food webs. There are other critters that would like to catch furthermore eat i! Type have ampere road of helping many critters defend themselves either to having physical attributes press body accessories or over knowing instinctively what to how like hide, run, and pretend to being deader. Suppose about where different critters live, to. Sometimes critters have places they can go to protect themselves, hide and get leaving from predators. Sometimes critters blend into their natural environment so they are rigid into even see. This is called camouflage. What are our defend against crabs that could harm us? We have some natural ones and we have some human-made unit! What behaviors do we seem go instinctively have when information comes up beings in contact with little such would may dangerous for us? How do we respond when we are back till face with critters that could harm us?