Ocean Animals With Cool Adaptations

To protect itself from the blowing sand of the desert a camel has two rows of long and thick eyelashes.

Ocean animals with cool adaptations. Blowholes an opening on the top of the head thats used for breathing. The photic zone lies few hundred meters below the water. The yeti crab is so unusual that a whole new family of animal had to be created to classify it.

Deep Sea Creatures refer to organisms that live below the photic zone of the ocean. Encourage students to think about adaptations in marine animals related to obtaining food providing camouflage or safety from predators or dealing with changes in temperature salinity pressure lack of sunlight and need for oxygen. They have streamlined bodies to help them swim fast and gills that suck the oxygen out of the water so they can breathe.

These species have special adaptations and live at different depths of the ocean with the majority found on the ocean floor. Snow petrels and a weddell seal share a tide crack for fishing in. Kiwa hirsuta was found on the floor of the 7540-foot-deep 2300-meter-deep Pacific Ocean some 900.

They have strong shells that protect them from wave action drying out and the prying beaks of predators. Closely related to orca whales Irrawaddy dolphins have adapted not through some physical trait but rather through a rather unique behavior. Over the years they have developed something of a partnership with local fishermanthey will drive schools of fish towards the fishermens nets and in exchange they have their pick of the helpless fish before the nets are.

If the animals want to survive they have to adapt. Sharks are very good at finding food. The ocean has three broad habitats.

Coastal plants need special adaptations to survive. Ocean animals have unique adaptations depending on what ocean habitat they live in. Facts about Animal Adaptations 1.