1. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
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2. Know It or Learn It? A behavior is anything an organism does.
Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Know It or Learn It?
A behavior is anything an organism does.
Learned behaviors are behaviors that come from watching other animals or through experience.
Young animals learn how to behave by watching and copying adults.
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3. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Know It or Learn It?
An instinct is a behavior that an animal knows without learning it.
Animals are born with instincts.
Behaviors are adaptations that may help an animal survive its environment.
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4. Know It or Learn It? A mother lion teachers her cubs to hunt.
Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Know It or Learn It?
A mother lion teachers her cubs to hunt.
Searching for food is an instinct.
Knowing how to find and catch food is something cubs learn by copying their parents.
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5. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Know It or Learn It?
A mother sea turtle buries her eggs in the sand. When the baby turtles hatch at night, they move toward the bright ocean. Both behaviors are instincts.
Other instincts include spiders spinning their webs and moths using moonlight to find their way.
For some birds, singing is an instinct. Some birds learn their songs from other birds.
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6. Know It or Learn It? Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
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7. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Finding Food
Every animal looks for food when it’s hungry. This is an instinctual behavior.
Some animals learn from watching their parents or other adults. But some animals can learn by themselves, too.
Bears wait for fish to swim upstream to catch them. This is a learned behavior.
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10. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Finding Shelter
Birds learn to build nests on buildings when trees are cut down.
A gopher knows to use its claws to dig into the ground to make a shelter for itself.
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11. Hibernation Animals respond to cold winter weather in different ways.
Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Hibernation
Animals respond to cold winter weather in different ways.
Some animals find food or eat food they have hidden.
Other animals hibernate, or go into a deep, sleeplike state that helps them survive the cold winter conditions. Hibernating is an instinctive behavior.
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12. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Hibernation
During hibernation, normal body activities slow down. The heart beats slowly, and breathing almost stops.
A hibernating animal doesn’t use much energy, because the body is barely working.
There is enough fat stored in the animal’s body to keep it alive through the winter.
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15. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Migration
Animals migrate when they move a long distance as a group from one region to another and back.
Many animals, including birds and fish, migrate.
The path the animals take is learned, but knowing when to migrate is an instinct.
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16. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
Migration
Whales and some other animals teach their young the way to go.
Whales swim to a warm place to mate.
Whales swim to a different spot to give birth.
Then they swim back to where they were to find food.
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18. Unit 3 Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?
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