well ive got biology homework to get done, we've been given several topics we can choose from. just need a bit of help understanding a term thats used on the sheet we got given. it says "discuss adaptions of the Rainbow Lorikeet"....i just dont get what it means by adaptions. is that like where it lives, what it eats, how it lives there, how its evolved or somethin? am i at least on the right track?
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"Adaptations" refers to anything that helps the organism thrive in an environment. Typically people focus on physical features such as beak shapes for finches with different eating habits (big and strong for nut-eating, long an thin to get bugs from the ground) but there are a lot of behavioural adaptations too.
Behavioural adaptations include things like being nocturnal to minimise the number of predators, but also things like communicating via sound rather than sight in a jungle (where it's hard to see long distances) or calling at high frequencies in the morning and low frequencies at midday as the distance sounds of certain frequencies travel is affected by the temperature of the air.
Behavioural adaptations include things like being nocturnal to minimise the number of predators, but also things like communicating via sound rather than sight in a jungle (where it's hard to see long distances) or calling at high frequencies in the morning and low frequencies at midday as the distance sounds of certain frequencies travel is affected by the temperature of the air.
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Discuss the features that it has that makes it fit to live there. Example: the mole has claws capable of digging to get underground.
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OMG DOUBLE RAINBOW LORIKEET ALL THE WAY