AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Adaptations: any physical or behavioral characteristics of an organism that help it to survive in its environment. Behavioral adaptation: something an animal does usually in response to some type of external stimulus in order to survive. Hibernating during winter is an example of a behavioral adaptation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hibernation is an adaptation that allows an animal to escape cold weather and food shortages over winter. This is an example of dormancy associated with mammals. Hibernation can be either predictive or consequential dormancy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hibernating is a behavioral adaptation that allows the bear to snooze through the harshest part of the year when the temperatures are low and food is hard to find. Hibernating lowers the grizzly bear’s body temperature, heart rate, and need for energy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of behavioral adaptation include migration, hibernation, learned behavior, alteration in the mode of reproduction, altered feeding habits, and distinct modes of communication.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hibernation is a collection of physiological strategies that allows animals to inhabit inhospitable environments, where they experience extreme thermal challenges and scarcity of food and water. Many different kinds of animals employ hibernation, and there is a spectrum of hibernation phenotypes.