Desert Animal Adaptations Camel
It describes about desert habitat and its.
Desert animal adaptations camel. Bactrian or two humped camels live in Asia. The camels thick coat insulates it from the intense heat radiated from desert sand. Adaptations are special characteristics that an organism is born with and which enable it to survive in its natural habitat.
The main task of the lesson involves pupils creating their own animal suited to a desert they can choose features from the handout make sure they reflect a desert environment. This fat is used for a very important purpose. Adaptations are not developed in the course of an organisms life.
A camel is always armed with different arsenals to ensure its survival in a harsh environment like a desert. Camels are well adapted for survival in the desert. They have wide feet for walking in sand.
Larger desert mammals such as ungulates depend on heterothermy and selective brain cooling to minimise EWL and generally do not excrete highly concentrated urine. Their eyes have bushy brows and 2 sets of eyelashes to protect them. During the summer the coat becomes lighter in color reflecting light as well as helping avoid sunburn.
Camels often live in deserts that are hot and dry during the day coping with wind-blown sand and cold at night. The camel has many adaptive traits for their life in the desert. The animals of the desert are highly adapted to the low availability of water due to the absence of precipitation less than 250 liters per year high evapotranspiration and thermal difference between day and night characteristics of the desert.
Their mouths have also adapted to the tough dry plant of the desert. They are able to produce highly concentrated urine. Even though that would be an impressive adaptation the hump is actually used to store fat.