Plant, Animal, and Insect Adaptations

Animal, Plant, and Insect Adaptations

Insect Adaptations:
Insect adaptations focus mainly around the ability to sting (with venom) for catching prey, camouflage using different colors and patterns for escaping predators, and the ability to fly or create different kinds of shelters or colonies for survival as a group.

Animal Adaptations:
Animal adaptations include adaptations to an arboreal life, bright colors, sharp patterns, loud vocalizations, and diets relying heavily on fruits. Prehensile tails are common to many animals and special skin flaps on reptiles and amphibians help the animals glide through the trees. These particular adaptations help animals hide from predators travel from tree to tree in search of food, and in some cases, help the particular animal find mates.

Plant Adaptations:
For plants in tropical rainforests, several characteristics have been adapted in order to better the lifestyle of the plant. Examples include: buttresses, which are broad, woody flanges used to channel stem flow for the dissolved nutrients to reach the tree’s roots, large leaves, which vary depending upon the canopy layers used for intercepting light in sun-deprived areas of the tropical rainforest, and drip tips, which facilitate precipitation and promotes transpiration. Other characteristics include exceptionally thin bark, which is sometimes armed with spines or thorns, caulifory, which is the development of flowers directly from the trunk, and large fleshy fruits, which attract animals as dispersal agents. These specific adaptations are very important to the plant life in the rainforest because they allow for the plants to maintain homeostasis and survive within the biome- which tends to limit its amount of sunlight needed for plant growth.