Admin How does an outer body covering help an animal survive?
Every living thing has some kind of covering (skin) to protect it from its environment. This covering can aid in defense, camouflage, locomotion, sensory perception, and is instrumental in keeping an animal from drying out. An animal’s skin may produce structures such as hair, nails, feathers, scales, horns, etc.
How are body covering helpful to animals?
Animals have coverings for different reasons. Some have fur to keep them warm or feathers to keep them dry. Some have scales, and some have shells or exoskeletons (skeletons on the outside) for protection. Most coverings also camouflage the animal, which helps animals hide from those wanting to hurt or kill them.
What are three examples of body coverings?
Types of Body Coverings Mammals have hair or fur, birds have feathers, reptiles have dry scales, amphibians have soft, moist skin, and fish have wet, slimy scales. Although each skin covering is useful in many ways, the focus of this information is how various colors and patterns help an animal’s chances for survival.
What are some adaptations for survival?
Behavioral adaptations include what an animal does and how it behaves in order to survive in a specific environment. Examples of behavioral adaptations include migration, hibernation, gathering and storing food, defense behaviors, and rearing young.
What are body coverings?
1. body covering – any covering for the body or a body part. hide, pelt, skin – body covering of a living animal. hypodermis – layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods.
What is the body covering of a lamb?
wool
The fibre that most sheep grow is called wool. The wool from one sheep is called a fleece. Shearing is when the wool is cut off (or shaved) from the sheep.
What is the body covering of a pig?
skin
Most pigs have rather a bristled sparse hair covering on their skin, although woolly-coated breeds such as the Mangalitsa exist. Pigs possess both apocrine and eccrine sweat glands, although the latter appear limited to the snout and dorsonasal areas.
What is the body covering of a cow?
Cowhide
Cowhide is the natural, unbleached skin and hair of a cow. It retains the original coloring of the animal. Cowhides are a product of the food industry from cattle.
What is the body covering of zebra?
Zebras are generally thought to have white coats with black (sometimes brown) stripes. That’s because if you look at most zebras, the stripes end on their belly and toward the inside of the legs, and the rest is all white.