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00:00Hi kids, today we will learn how different animals adapt to their environment.
00:10Let's start.
00:12Kids, let's first see, what is adaptation?
00:16Special characteristics of plants and animals that enable them to live in a particular environment are termed as adaptation.
00:28In addition, there are various types of adaptations.
00:34Let's learn about a few of them.
00:38Camouflage.
00:40Survival can become a challenging task in the wild, especially if you're smaller or slower than the possible predators.
00:52This is why many animal species have developed different ways to camouflage, that is, blending itself with the environment.
01:02This enables the animal to hide from predators and also to catch up its prey.
01:09Have a look at some examples.
01:13This is a stick insect.
01:16It completely blends with its environment.
01:20That is, it looks like a stick itself.
01:24This way it can hide from its predators and can catch its preys without making its preys getting to know of its presence.
01:35Now let's see more examples of camouflage.
01:39This is an owl.
01:42It completely blends itself with the trunk of a tree.
01:47This is a caterpillar.
01:49It camouflages itself on the leaves.
01:54Here we have another example of camouflage.
01:58It's hard to find this toad in these leaves.
02:02Can you find them?
02:05So this is the way this toad hides itself from its predators and can also catch its prey.
02:15Here is a small seahorse.
02:18It camouflages itself in aquatic plants.
02:23Here is another insect camouflaging itself as a leaf.
02:28Now let's learn another type of adaptation in animals.
02:33It is hibernation.
02:36Some animals hibernate, that is, go into deep sleep so they can survive throughout the cold season.
02:45When the weather is freezing and the food is scarce.
02:50Hibernation truly is a clever survival mechanism.
02:56Now let's see some animals that can hibernate.
03:00Wood frogs.
03:03Common poorwills.
03:07Ground squirrels.
03:10Hamsters.
03:12Bats.
03:14Bears.
03:16Garter snakes.
03:18And snails are some animals that hibernate.
03:23Now let's see another way of adaptation.
03:29Migration.
03:33Animals travel a long way from one place to another for the sake of better weather or breeding or better food.
03:45Animal migration is the traveling of long distances in search of new habitat.
03:53It can be for breeding, it can be for feeding, or it can be for better environments or climates.
04:01The trigger for the migration may be local climate, local availability of food, or the season of the year.
04:11Bird migration is regular seasonal journeys undertaken by many species of birds.
04:20Bird movement include those made in response to changes in food availability, habitat, or weather.
04:30Now let's learn some fun facts about the migrating animals.
04:37The whale that migrates the longest is the gray whale, which migrates about 12,500 miles.
04:47The insect that migrates the longest is the desert locust, which travels about 2,800 miles.
04:57The butterfly that migrates the longest is a monarch butterfly. It migrates up to 2,000 miles.
05:07The land animals that migrates the longest is the caribou, which travels about 700 miles.
05:16Now let's learn about some animals that migrate.
05:21The Canadian geese fly north every spring to enjoy the long, sunny days and fly south every fall to find warm weather and food.
05:35Here are some more examples.
05:38African elephant. It migrates to find food during the wet and dry seasons.
05:46Bats. Bats are the only flying mammal. Some bats, like the geese, migrate.
05:57Many birds, like the bobolink, the arctic tern, migrate.
06:04Crab. A crab is an animal with a shell. Many crabs migrate to reproduce.
06:13Gray whale. A baleen whale, that is a bottom feeder, migrates long distances.
06:23So kids, today we learned what is adaptation and some kinds of adaptations.
06:31Now you may go ahead and take a quiz to learn more. Bye-bye.