Any change in the lifestyle, the food habits and the body form of an organism in order to make it comfortable in the environment / habitat, is called adaptation. Identify the suitable adaptation given below against each mammal.
i) conservation of body heat in large marine mammals like whale (Jaws are modified into baleen plates / Forelimbs are modified into flippers /
Fat is deposited in subcutaneous tissue.)
ii) Locating food source by bats-( Forelimbs are modified into wings / Hanging upside down using legs / Production of sounds and detection of the echo)
i) Fat is deposited in subcutaneous tissue. Whales need to conserve their body heat in cold waters. Their body is surrounded by thick layer of fat called blubber just under the skin that helps to keep them warm.
ii) Production of sounds and detection of the echo. Echo location is a biological sonar like system phenomenon that is used by bats, to locate and detect objects by emitting high pitch sounds that reflect back the object and return to animal’s sensory receptors. So, bats use echo location to locate food source.
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