Revise: Adaptation
Revise: Adaptations
Most animals are well adapted to their biotic and abiotic conditions due to behavioural, physiological or structural adaptations that increase their chances of survival and reproduction.
Revise: Learned behaviour in response to stimuli
Animals respond to environmental changes by altering their behaviour. Some behaviour is innate, but some is learned by experience during life and improves the chances of survival and reproduction.
Video playlist
Video: Adaptations of animals and plants. Video
An introduction to the adaptations of some marine and terrestrial animals and plants.
Video: Evolution of seaweed. Video
Professor Richard Fortey explains seaweed's role in maintaining a rock pool ecosystem.
Video: Adaptation of walia ibex in finding a niche habitat. Video
Walia ibex live on sheer cliffs in Ethiopia and have adapted to survive on steep cliffs.
Video: Adaptations for rock pool survival. Video
Professor Richard Fortey examines techniques used by sea anemones to survive a rock pool.
Revise: Migration and response to tidal changes. Video
Professor Richard Fortey investigates the rhythmical behaviour of the Eurydice pulchra.
Video: Adaptation of birdcage plant, puffball and star fungi. Video
How can air be used to disperse seeds and spores?
Video: Adaptation of plant life to extreme cold temperatures. Video
How is plant life adapted to survive in freezing Arctic temperatures?
Video: Rock pools by night. Video
Professor Richard Fortey explores the behaviour of a glass shrimp when oxygen levels fall.
Video: Predator prey relationships in rock pools. Video
Professor Richard Fortey looks at the hunting skills of the starfish and the dog whelk.
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