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Tips for an Effective Speaking for Wildlife Presentation

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“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Setting the Stage

You begin “speaking” to your audience long before you utter your first words. 

• Be appropriately groomed and dressed , with an alert, confident posture. Let your appearance assure the audience that you are competent.
• Be a good host . Arrive before your audience in time to ready equipment, prepare props and check everything. 
• Meet and greet. Be ready to make as many acquaintances aspossible when the audience first arrives. This helps you make last minute changes to make sure your talk is relevant to your audience.
• Come prepared. You should know your content well so that you can concentrate on your delivery and respond to your audience.

Your Beginning

• The first thirty seconds are critical in establishing rapport. You need to project warmth, confidence and competence. You should practice your welcome and introduction so that it flows easily.
• Don’t put barriers between you and your audience. Don’t stand behind a podium or table. Meet the audience standing upright with a smile and eye to eye contact. Be casual but not sloppy.
• Don’t sit down or stand with your hands in your pockets. You shouldn’t be too formal, though – with hands behind you, wooden posture and gloomy expression.
• Don’t write out your presentation content. At most have an outline on a notecard to keep you on track. If you need a cue to get back on track, simply pause look at your notecard and carry on. Make this act seem natural.
• Don’t memorize your talks/content. It will prevent a fresh spontaneous delivery. Keep the main points in mind and you will easily remember the examples to illustrate them.
• Talk spontaneously and with simple directness. Talk with the same conversational inflections that you would use with a group of friends.
• Your voice is an instrument. You have pitch, rate and volume. Orchestrate your talk with a contrast of high and low notes. Use the full range of your voice. Emphasize some parts of your talk with slow, deliberate pace. Breeze through other parts lightly
• Don’t talk continuously. Moments of silence can be used to set off main points of your talk. Pauses are like speed bumps on a road; they alert your audience that something important is coming.

Five Tips for Public Speaking

• Remember that your audience does not want you to fail. They are rooting for you to do well!
• Be yourself! Speak in your own voice, whatever that is. The audience will know if your style is insincere, and they would much rather hear your own voice, which allows your passion to show through.
• Do not apologize (unless it’s truly appropriate). It will make the audience uncomfortable, will make you more nervous, and is almost never necessary.
• Being passionate is better than being an expert. A lot of people are afraid to speak on a subject in front of a crowd because they are afraid that they don’t know enough. As long as you are interested in and passionate about the subject you are presenting, you absolutely do not need to be an expert.
• Don’t be afraid to say that you don’t know the answer to a tough question. Get comfortable saying “I don’t know, but that’s a great question!”

The Words You Use

Well-chosen words create vivid images. The time you spend choosing words will be appreciated by your audience.

• Be specific.
• Avoid fillers.
• Creative effective imagery by using active verbs; specific, concrete nouns; familiar people and places; and personal language.

Body Language

• Communicate through facial expressions. Some experts claim that fiftyfive percent of understanding from messages is from facial expressions, not words. Make friendly eye contact with everyone.
• Communicate through posture.
• Avoid distracting mannerisms. Guard against weight shifting, body rocking, table leaning, arm swinging, hand hiding, clothes fidgeting, foot scuffling
• Communicate through gestures . Punctuate and describe points in the program with your hands. Use natural, unexaggerated gestures. Be tasteful and understated.
• Walk with purpose.

Props attract an audience’s attention and add dimension to your presentation. Props heighten curiosity, and people pay attention to things they are curious about. People also respond to familiar objects when they are used in innovative ways. Keep these tips in mind when using props:

• Mounted specimens are effective
• Colorful items draw attention
• Props are effective when they involve different senses
• People are drawn to historical artifacts

Questioning

Questions can be used if they serve several purposes. They stimulate interest. They help organize the program. They encourage creative thinking. They emphasize important points. They offer visitors a chance to share thoughts and feelings.

• Focus Questions are the most basic kind of questions and involve specific information. They often begin with “who, what, or where.”
• Process Questions have a wider scope of possible responses than focus questions. Process questions ask people to integrate information rather than just remembering or describing.
• Evaluative Questions usually deal with matters of value, choice or judgment of the participants. They offer group members a chance to express their feelings. Not all questions require a verbal response from visitors. Rhetorical questions are asked when you don’t expect visitors to answer aloud.

8 Tips for Questioning

• Direct most questions to the entire audience rather than a single individual. This indicates to the group that everyone is expected to think.
• Ask only one question at a time.
• Allow time for an answer. This is called “wait-time.” Research has shown the longer the questioner allows for an answer, the better the answer will be. Never answer your own questions. If no one offers a response, leave it open to be answered later or rephrase the question.
• Do not start a question with “does anyone know...” or “Can anyone tell me...” Such phrases express doubt that the question can be answered.
• Pace questions to the ability of the group.
• Develop ideas and concepts through a series of questions. Build from focus questions to process questions to evaluative questions. This challenges your group to higher levels of thinking.
• Accept answers to questions gracefully, even if the answers are wrong. Never make someone feel foolish for participating in the program.
• Finally, avoid questions that require a simple yes or no.

Educational researchers have indicated that providing a wait time of three or more seconds after asking a question gives audience members a better chance of recalling information and has a positive effect on the quality of responses, and therefore, on learning.

Structuring Your Presentation

Step 1: pow.

Capture the group’s attention with a provocative introduction.

An introduction does two things. It promises your listeners a rewarding experience and it introduces your talk theme.

You can be startling or humorous, a rhetorical question or an apt quotation. Your goal is provocation. You need to grab your audience with your first words.

Step 2: Bridge

Answer the questions, “Why was that said?” and “What does it mean to me?”

Bridges connect the introduction to the body of the talk and to the interests of the audience. Bridges would answer the question, “OK, you have my attention, but what’s your purpose? Why should I care?

Step 3: Body

Illustrate the main message of your program with examples. Listeners enjoy personalized “for instances.”

Your theme serves as the skeleton to which you attach your ideas. The body is made up of facts and for instances that flesh out your theme. Without a theme the body of your talk will be flabby and shapeless with little appeal to your audience.

With your main points outlined, you now must decide how to illustrate them. To be effective, every main idea presented should be illustrated in some way. Use visual aids, such as props, slides or other audio visual devices. Create mental images through metaphor and analogy, guided imagery or storytelling. Involve the audience physically. Make sure you breathe life into cold dead abstraction.

Step 4: Conclusion

Conclude your presentation by summarizing or giving a call to action. Answer the question, “So What?”

Your conclusion should tell the listener you are done. It can be a call to action or can summarize your main points. It might be a thought provoking quote or a dramatic ending for emotional impact.

“A book may give you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet .... To plunge [in] is the only way.” —Dale Carnegie The Art of Public Speaking

This document was adapted from Presentation Skills for the Interpretive Naturalist, Interpreters Handbook Series, Kathleen Regnier, Michael Gross and Ron Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

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Working With Animals in Presentations

Written by Elly Neumann

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As a puppy trainer, zookeeper, and zoo animal trainer working in an industry where we do a lot of presentations, the question I get asked the most is how can one keep up good presentation skills and get the message across whilst presenting with animals, in front of an audience. We’re talking about puppy classes, sea lion shows, keeper talks, dog training demonstrations and any other animal-related activities. There are many skills (many that are still being learnt) that are required in order to be able to present while still effectively monitoring the animal’s behaviour so that you may respond and train accordingly. This article will discuss key skills in being able to present your message to your audience whilst still focusing on the animal behaviour side of things.

A large part of our job working with animals involves presenting to individuals or groups of people. Whether it be a one-on-one dog training session with a client, a small puppy class, a zookeeper talk in front of a small group, or an animal presentation in front of a larger audience, we are not only required to think about our presentation skills but also keep in mind the experience of the animal we are working with.

Whilst being an animal carer and a public speaker are two very different skill sets, one cannot ignore the importance of public exposure and education in the field. It is for this reason that the ability to speak publicly and present what you know is so important. Whilst it is common knowledge that public speaking falls into the category of people’s worst fears, you can also find fear of spiders up there too…so how is it that one of the best presentations at my zoo is the spider talk? A combination of important keeper knowledge and key presentation skills, put together to make an enjoyable experience for keeper, audience, and spider!

Teaching a strong station behaviour is beneficial when training for presentations.

Just as you use specific techniques, tools, and behaviours to help the animals that you care for, there are also techniques, tools, and behaviours that can help in presentations. Using some of these means you will successfully be able to present your animal either one on one or in a large group, while ensuring an enriching experience for both you and your animal ambassador.

As animal trainers we are always watching and monitoring behaviour, making sure that we can pinpoint exactly where to reinforce a behaviour or where not too. If every interaction with an animal is regarded as training, how does that come into play when we are presenting to an audience with an animal by our side? Is this 20-minute sea lion show also a training session? Is the puppy demonstration in class a presentation? If we look at it from the view of the animal, then I would say yes. Your animal ambassador doesn’t know the difference between a training session and a simple demonstration. For them it is the same experience, the only difference is you. That’s why it is so important to make every interaction with your animal a well-thought-out one.

Max (a young Australian Sea lion) learning to target on stage without an audience. Building up strong foundation behaviours on stage will help when he begins learning to do presentations by doing his training sessions in front of a growing crowd.

Let’s look at what skills are needed to present to an audience whilst also training an animal. This way we can ensure the audience is receiving the message you are trying to impart whilst the animal is also getting the training attention they deserve.

So what skills are needed for a successful presentation? Success can usually be measured by whether the audience has had a meaningful connection with the message. What will they take away from your presentation, and were your goals met?  There are a lot of “top tips” out there about presentation skills, but how can we relate this to situations where we have our animal counterparts by our side. Assuming we have all gotten to the stage of knowing exactly how to give a great presentation, what is the best way to transfer these skills to incidences where we also have our animal by our side.

Know your audience

When delivering a presentation, it is important to know and understand who you are delivering the presentation to. The wording, actions, and messaging will be different depending on what you are trying to communicate and what key points you hope the audience will take away with them. Knowing your audience means adapting your core message and presentation depending on if you are presenting to a single client, a group of preschool kids, school holiday family visitors, or even animal behavioural studies students. That is why your presentation skills and message should be flexible and adaptable so that it will directly suit the audience you are aiming for.

“Interpretation” is a form of communication used in zoos, museums and nature parks, where the audience makes an emotional connection with the subject. It relies on the fact that people will be more likely to absorb information presented to them if they understand its context in relevance to their own personal experiences. For example, in our sea lion presentations at the zoo we describe a sea lion’s flipper being similar to the audience’s own hand, or in the gorilla keeper talk we illustrate how by simply recycling their own mobile phones they can directly help gorillas in the wild. This is building that connection between animals and the individual audience member as they find something about the animal they can relate to.

Presenting in front of a large audience means having a focus on animal training skills and presentation skills- you need to make sure that the animal training session is a great learning experience for the animals but that the audience needs are also met.

The same can be said for other types of presentations. Small group puppy or dog training classes can often be more effective when the trainer relates the animal’s behaviour back to the owners. For example, one of the most common frustrations with puppy owners is the puppy chewing everything around the house. When I work with families (especially those with children) I immediately compare this with caring for infants. For instance, often with babies we need to “manage the environment’ and tailor safe surroundings by using tools such as play pens or soft toys.  The concept of creating a safe space with appropriate toys for teething is exactly the same way we deal with a puppy in this environment.

People are more likely to respond to something, or better practice a behaviour, that they understand and can relate to than if you just tell them it’s the right thing to do.

Understanding the audience that you are presenting to and adapting the presentations to make it relevant, enjoyable, and meaningful will lead to a longer-lasting impact on the audience.

Know your animal

Knowing your animal is one of the key foundations for a strong training relationship. Desensitizing animals to the presentation factors is key in your planning. How many times do our animals present a behaviour on cue, and then in front of an audience there is no response? Making sure you approximate to the presentation is important. Getting them used to not only the environmental set up of the presentation but also to the type of audience can be instrumental in the success of the presentation.

I remember one of the first fur seals that I trained for a show — I had spent a lot of time desensitizing to different audience types and situations. From umbrellas and raincoats, to screaming children and a loud clapping and cheering audience, I felt that the fur seal had seen and heard it all. Until one day amongst the quiet audience someone wound their disposable camera (a sound that she had never heard before), and that was that…  she became nervous and swam off stage. I realized that we can’t desensitize to everything in a presentation environment; rather, desensitization needs to be more general and focused on various concepts. What we want is to build up a resilience in the animal so that they are aware of how to react in common situations rather than specific ones. Whether it be loud and varied noises or the different sights and sounds of our audience, desensitizing our animals is a valuable tool.

When presenting to an audience, we want to provide an opportunity for them to connect to what we are saying and the significance of what they are learning. We need to have a strong understating of our animals’ behaviour to do this, but also of the audience so that everyone’s needs are met.

Plan your content — both human and animal

One of the key aspects of success for a meaningful presentation is planning the content. Knowing exactly what your message is beforehand is the best way to get that message across. We want to try to build a connection between the interests of our audience and our animals’ behaviour, so a well-planned presentation means that you are prepared and you know your subject.

Knowing exactly what your animal will be doing during the presentation will help you set goals for the session and work out what behaviours will be required. Plan how to bridge and reinforce the animal. If your dog is used to always having behaviour marked with a clicker, will you be able to use that when doing a training demonstration whilst talking? Will you present the information, then do the session in silence so that the dog is in a training environment that they are used to? Or will you use a different trained marker such as a tactile shoulder touch?

One of the challenges I have faced with this was with our sea lions. We would mostly use a whistle bridge, which we can’t use in a presentation when we are talking at the same time. We found that the sea lions were starting to pick up on other signals that we were going to reinforce, such as our hands going into the food pouch, and so we became more conscious of this and worked out ways to add the bridge “good” into the presentation in a way that was subtle for the audience but worked for the animal.

When working with animals, things don’t always go to plan, but we can preempt this and plan for how we will deal with the unexpected. Having some additional information about the animal’s behaviour (or lack thereof) to share with the audience is often helpful. Preparation is key. Make sure you have some back-up plans up your sleeve in the event that not everything goes according to plan. After all, we want our animals to have a great training session and our audiences to be educated and engaged. As long as this is the outcome, it doesn’t matter if things don’t go 100% to plan in between.

We need to be flexible in our approach but consistent with our standard in training.

After practicing and doing some short training sessions in front of small crowds, Max is now ready to take the stage in front of a larger audience. Making sure the training session is short, positive and ends on a high is an important step of this process.

Create great experiences for your audience and your animal

Giving people, no matter who they are, an awareness, appreciation, and an understanding of your animal is key to them having a positive experience. Giving your animal the appropriate training, reinforcement, and time is key to them also having a great experience.

Just as we may be translating the behaviour of the animals and its meaning to our audience, we are also translating what we want from our animals through training.

If the animal in your presentation is doing some awesome behaviours, be aware that your audience may be learning more from what the animal is doing than what you are saying. Use gaps in animal behaviours to explain things to the audience, and let the animal behaviour speak for itself, as that is what the audience will often focus on.

I remember my first sea lion show, I asked one of the senior keepers at the time for their top piece of advice. They said, “Don’t worry about what you say — no one’s even listening.” I remember thinking at the time, what’s the point if no one listens? With experience I learned that it’s finding the balance between getting your audience to listen, to learn, to enjoy, and to remember. Finding that right combination between your animal doing a behaviour, waiting, then explaining, and maybe doing the behaviour again is the perfect balance for a great presentation.

CAPTION: An example of a training session with Able, a young New Zealand fur seal that came into the Taronga Zoo wildlife clinic but due to his injuries he was unable to be released into the wild. We try to make the training session short and positive so that Able has a learning experience whilst training in front of an audience. Using a second keeper to present means the trainer can focus on Able and his behaviour and ensure that his behavioural needs are met. We would approximate up to this step by doing training sessions without an audience and then eventually we would not need a second keeper. Training solid foundation behaviours such as target and station helps with these presentations.

When running group puppy or dog training classes I often try to follow a teaching technique that allows the groups to learn — “Do it fast, then repeat it slow, do it together, now off they go!” Show the audience how to do the behaviour, then show them again a lot more slowly, work with them to get the behaviour, then let them do it themselves — a learning technique that works well for both human and animal.

Build conscious communication skills

Communication skills are important in any presentation, but even more so when you are also including animals. Especially for people like me who also tend to use a lot of hand gestures when they present, it is important to understand the impact this can have on the animal and what the implications may be on your cues. Is this something that needs to be practiced in training sessions? If so, I will practice having an animal sit still whilst my hands go wild.

It is important to have a clear understanding of exactly how your reinforcement will work during a presentation. Is it different or as it would be in any given training session without an audience? Is it based on the animal’s behaviour or has it become part of the script and thus predictable for the animals? Are the training techniques you’re using during your session the same as what you would do in private? Is the animal getting the same focus and attention that they’re used to? Is the audience response dictating what you ask, or is your training driving the outcome? Asking yourself these questions beforehand will make sure you have a clearer picture going into your presentation and thus help set you up for success.

We need to remember that how we teach matters as much as what we teach, and this is an important consideration in training whilst presenting.

Aim to practice and improve

We need to continuously improve on presentation skills just as we can always improve on our training skills. Practicing good communication and delivery allow it to become natural, and this aids in better training for our animals

One thing that can also differ between a training session and presentation is our physical response to being in front of an audience. This was made really clear once when one of my colleagues wore his new Fitbit to work. He measured his heart rate before, during, and after presenting in front of a thousand people. His heart rate was through the roof during the presentation. Animals are usually very in tune with their trainers, so you have to ask yourself, how would this impact the animal? How could this have an effect on their behaviour? What can I do to work on this?

One thing we can do to help this is work on controlling our physical response to nerves, which is what this keeper did. That way we can remove the impact this can have on our animal. If you need a moment to pause and regain yourself,  you can add that into a presentation by saying “let’s take a moment to observe this animal” or train your animal on a solid “stay” with duration, so you can use that in times when you need to recollect your thoughts.

Practice by doing your training sessions in the area that the presentation will be given. Have someone watch and give real-time feedback so that your presentation skills and your training technique can be adjusted if necessary.  Reviewing and critiquing both our presentation techniques and our training session will together build a better, stronger skill set. Identifying changes we can make to how we present, as well as identifying the animals response to cues during the presentation, will help us improve.

Working in an animal industry which prioritizes conservation through audience engagement and education means that zookeepers have an important role in doing talks and presentations with animals.

After speaking with some of the world’s best keepers, I’ve gathered their top tips to getting your message across whilst making sure your animal is a priority:

• The audience doesn’t know your script or what you planned to say, so when things go off track they won’t know it went wrong unless you tell them.
• Silences are never as long as you feel they are. Sometimes the best solution when things go off track is just to pause, gather your thoughts, and then keep going. It’s like a Least Reinforcing Scenario (LRS) for trainers.
• If you run out of things to say, remember your animal. You know them best, and people are fascinated about the animal-trainer relationship. Worst case, you can just talk about animal poop (did you know wombat poo is cube-shaped?).
• Enjoy yourself. If you believe in what you are saying your audience will too
• Film your sessions and practice presentations, and review them. Practice makes perfect.
• Build strong foundation behaviours in your animals. These will be useful when presenting in front of others.

Presenting with an animal is a unique skillset which merges key presentation skills and animal training techniques. This first-hand knowledge you are presenting to an audience will have a lasting impact, as will the experience that your animal has during this “training session.”

CAPTION: Working with animals in presentations requires being able to work in a team, continuously monitoring and responding to the animals behaviour as well as to the audience needs. Hopefully these animals are ambassadors for their species and no matter the audience or idea, we get our message across in a way that meets our animals needs.

When a presentation is successful in its outcomes, the audience leaves feeling fulfilled, knowledgeable, and with a need to act. The animal should leave on a high, having had a good learning experience with their trainer. Whether it’s a zoo visitor ready to act for conservation or a dog owner ready to improve the welfare of their animal’s life, a good presentation will have that inspirational factor.

Combining knowledge of the audience, knowledge of your animal, good communication skills, and great training techniques is key for successful animal presentations.

It’s important to remember that it’s not only about you as the presenter. No one has ever come to watch me present (except maybe my parents). People come to your presentation for a reason, whether it’s to learn about their pet and how to manage their behaviour, how to settle their new puppy into their home, how they can save tigers in the wild, or to learn just a little bit more about their favourite marine species, we as presenters are the connection between that knowledge and the animal, in so many ways.

CAPTION: Practicing and generalising cues from different locations and heights allows behaviours like this cliff jump to be successful.

As William Glasser has so famously expressed: “We learn . . . 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we see and hear, 70% of what we discuss, 80% of what we experience and 95% of what we teach others.” Let’s keep on teaching both humans and animals!

Elly Neumann has worked for the last 20 years at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. As well as being a Senior Marine Mammal Trainer at the zoo she works for the Taronga Training Institute, teaching animal care courses in zoos across Australia. Currently Elly is living in Israel where she is working as the Coordinator of Welfare, Training and Enrichment at Jerusalem Zoo. As well as her work in zoos Elly runs dog training courses specialising in puppy training for families. She also runs The Animal Behaviour Initiative,  which focuses on animal training and education for animals and those that care for them. Facebook: @theanimalbehaviourinitiative, Instagram @theanimalbehaviourinitiative and @when_lifes_a_zoo.

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Presentation about animals,  providing information about animals and their types and characteristics of each type of animals as well as their living places and sources of food, which enables you to provide a detailed presentation about animals. All of this information will be found here in presentation about animals .

The animal world is full of amazing secrets and interesting information. This is what you will find here so that you can make a presentation about animals in English. All you have to do is attach the contents to some illustrations using PowerPoint.

Introduction

Hello … My name is … I will show you today a presentation about the animals, I hope you will like it. And I will answer all your questions at the end with all pleasure.

Animal World

The world of animals is a world filled with information and amazing facts, Animals, for example, belong to many breeds, spread throughout the world.

Each strain differs from the other in shape, color, physical characteristics, behavioral nature, mating and migration seasons as well.

Including what is known by the human being called pets or domesticated, and including what is predator, and poses a danger to human life and health.  In this presentation I will show you some information about the animal world.

Animal species

Mammals live in different environments, such as the sea or the land. And all of them with warm blood, and give birth to mammals young as human female, instead of laying eggs, and waiting until hatch. It also breastfeeds her children with her breasts.

Are animals that are mostly able to fly, have wings, cover their body feathers, Unlike mammals, they do not give birth directly. They even lay eggs and take care of them until they hatch. There are more than 9,000 species of birds in the world.

Are the only animals, that can breathe underwater over their life cycle.  They lay the eggs from which the small fish come out. Some of them harmless, but the other is predatory as the shark.

Are the animals that take land and water as  a habitat and double living space, and the most famous of these animals are frogs.

Are the animals that are characterized by crawling on the ground, as a way to move, and have no legs most likely, and reptiles put eggs. Around the world there are six thousand and eight hundred species of reptiles, the most famous of which are the snake and the lizard.

The main groups in the animal kingdom

The herbivores

Are herbivorous animals, where plants are the main source of their food. There are animals that graze grasses and weeds, plants on the surface of the land.

But there are some types of invertebrates such as mollusks feed on algae, and other plant resources, such as feed and hay, for example.

Examples of herbivores include cattle of all kinds, such as cows, sheep, camels and horses. Wild animals such as deer, buffaloes, zebra, giraffe, elephants, panda bears, and goats, all fed on foliage, soft branches and fruits.

Predators can most likely prey on all other animal species. These species include many types of animals, including small ones, including high hunting skills such as tiger and lion.

Predators include more than two hundred and sixty species of real mammals.  The size of predators varies greatly, and feed on meat in the first place.

Along with the ability to predator, it possesses a uniformity, contrast, and super-visual ability, which determines the movements of the prey before it is attacked.

Multi-food animals

The group includes some categories of animals, which eat various types of food, such as plants, meat and other foods.

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Have you ever wondered how animals are able to survive in the wild?

Animals have certain adaptations that help them to survive.

Think about the way you dress in the winter.

You don’t wear your shorts and bathing suit when it’s snowing outside!

You wear warm clothes, and maybe even a hat and mittens to protect yourself from the weather.

And what if you are having a snowball fight?

You probably run away from the person throwing at you, and maybe even try to sneak up on that person and throw some snowballs!

The way you dress in the winter, as well as the way that you run and hide from someone throwing snow at you are kinds of …

Adaptations.

We can separate adaptations into two categories:

Physical adaptations

are body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce its species.

Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.

Hey! I’m a walking stick. I look just like a stick you’d find on the ground.

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Physical adaptation

Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)

The chameleon can change its c o l o r to match its surroundings. Can you do that?

(looking or sounding like another living organism)

The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?

Not poisonous

I’m the Monarch!

I’m the Viceroy!

Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)

Body coverings & parts (claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)

The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick things up.

Stick Insect

Poison Arrow Tree Frog

Mimic Poison Arrow Tree Frog

Three-toed Sloth

Now let’s learn about

Behavioral Adaptations…

Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs.

Each organism has unique methods of adapting to its environment by means of different actions.

Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.

Remember that Physical Adaptations are body structures .

Finding shelter

Methods of gathering & storing food

Defending oneself

Raising young

Hibernating

A Shark’s Adaptations

What are a adaptations to life in an aquatic environment?

streamlined shape to reduce friction when moving through water

gills have a large surface area so that oxygen can be

extracted from the surrounding water

fins provide stability, power and control

What are a shark’s adaptations to life as an aquatic predator?

highly sensitive sense of smell that can detect drops of blood from miles away

lots of very sharp teeth that are constantly replaced

silver colouring underneath acts as camouflage

specialized sense organs can detect the sound, movement and electrical fields of other organisms

Use three words to describe each of these environments. �

The desert:

The Arctic:

Compare these two animals…

Desert Fox Arctic Fox

Adaptations

• The two environments we saw before are harsh environments for animals to survive in so the animals have had to adapt to survive.

Animals in Cold Climates

• Arctic animals must keep themselves warm to survive.
• You loose body heat through your body surface, mainly your skin.
• Arctic animals have developed many adaptations to help them survive…

Look at the following…

What do these animals have in common?

Common features:

• Thick fur coats
• Layer of blubber under the skin
• Colour – many change colour in the summer

Animals in Dry Climates

• Animals in dry climates have to keep themselves cool to survive.
• They also have to cope with a lack of water.
• This means they are unable to loose heat through sweating – why?
• Large thin ears
• Little body fat
• Thin, silky fur
• Long limbs to help spread heat
• They also often only come out at night. Why?

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