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Animals Have Specific Characteristics and Behaviours To Protect Themselves

Animals have developed specific characteristics and behaviors to protect themselves from predators and ensure the survival of their species. These include using horns to fight, having strong legs to escape, growing hard shells or scales for protection, emitting poisonous stings or bad smells as a defense, erecting sharp spines when threatened, spraying ink to obscure pursuers, detaching body parts to distract enemies, living in groups for detection of threats, camouflaging their appearance to blend in with their surroundings, creating fake eyes to ward off attackers, and inflating their bodies into spiky balls. A variety of animals from deer to octopuses have such adaptations that help them avoid extinction through avoidance or deterrence of enemies.

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Animals Have Specific Characteristics and Behaviours To Protect Themselves

Animals have developed specific characteristics and behaviors to protect themselves from predators and ensure the survival of their species. These include using horns to fight, having strong legs to escape, growing hard shells or scales for protection, emitting poisonous stings or bad smells as a defense, erecting sharp spines when threatened, spraying ink to obscure pursuers, detaching body parts to distract enemies, living in groups for detection of threats, camouflaging their appearance to blend in with their surroundings, creating fake eyes to ward off attackers, and inflating their bodies into spiky balls. A variety of animals from deer to octopuses have such adaptations that help them avoid extinction through avoidance or deterrence of enemies.

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Animals have

specific
characteristics
and behaviours
to protect
themselves
动物的物种生存 SURVIVAL OF ANIMAL SPECIES

To avoid extinction, animals have the ability to keep their species alive

Each animal has one or several ways to fight against their enemies

Specific characteristics
Specific behaviours
Strong legs Hard scales

horns Hard shells


Poisonous sting

Produce bad smell


Sharp spines

Inflate their body Spurt out black ink

Fake eyes detach certain parts


camouflage Live in group of their body
horns

Use sharp horns on head to fight against enemies

Deer, antelope, rhinoceros, buffalo


horns
deer rhinoceros

antelope buffalo
goat
Strong legs
Use strong legs and developed muscles to help animals escape
from hunting by predators

Frog, rabbit, zebra, kangaroo, horse, ostrich


frogs horse
rabbit

Strong legs
ostrich
zebra kangaroo
Hard shells

Allow animals to retract into their shells to avoid enemies


when they are in danger

Tortoise, snail, shells


Hard shells
Hard scales

has hard scales to protect the body to protect from enemies

Pangolin, dragon fish, crocodile


Hard scales
Poisonous sting

Has poisonous stings or fangs that can attack enemies

Poisonous snake, centipede, scorpion, bee


Poisonous sting
Sharp spines

When threatened, animals will erect spikes, making it difficult


for enemies to approach

Echidna, Porcupine, Pufferfish, Hedgehog


Sharp
spines
Spurt out black ink

When encountering natural enemies, they will spray black


ink to cover their escape

Squid, octopus
Spurt out
black ink
detach certain parts of their body

When been attacked, it will self-destruct body parts, to draw the


enemy’s attention and take the opportunity to escape
octopus
lizard

crab detach certain parts of their body


starfish
Live in group

Living in groups allows them to detect enemies close to them in


time from all directions, reducing the possibility of being attacked

Elephant, zebra, antelope, ant


Live in group
camouflage

As the environment changes, the color and pattern of the body are
changed, and it is not easy to be found by natural enemies

Squirrel, stick insect, green bamboo snake, stone fish, praying mantis,
chameleon
Most animals are color-blind, and many animals have camouflage
appearances

Change colour,
markings
camouflage
camouflage
camouflage
camouflage
Fake eyes

Some animals have eye-like spots to scare away natural enemies

Moth, butterfly, fish, caterpillar, peacock


Fake eyes
Inflate their body

When threatened, an animal will swell its body into a spiky ball to
frighten off natural enemies
Inflate their body
Bad smells
Bad smells
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