AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The polar bear, for instance, has black skin. Its translucent fur reflects the sunlight and snow of its habitat, making the bear appear white. Camouflage can change with the environment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some animals of the far north, like the showshoe and Arctic hares, Arctic fox, stoat, and rock ptarmigan change their coat colour (by moulting and growing new fur or feathers) from brown or grey summer camouflage to white in the winter; the Arctic fox is the only species in the dog family to do so.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arctic Foxes Their white winter fur–sometimes blue-gray–helps them go undetected as they hunt for voles and lemmings, and to hide from predators like polar bears. The foxes follow polar bears, scavenging on scraps from the bears’ kills.

Detailed explanation-4: -Camouflage in animals can be reckoned as a structural adaptation as it allows it some changes in its external body to survive better in the environment around them. It helps them not to get detected by their predators and also as an aid in their hunting for prey.

Detailed explanation-5: -Camouflage is a natural phenomenon used by plants and animals to blend into their environment. Predators and prey alike use camouflage to avoid detection. During this phenomenon, prey may change their skin colour or disguise themselves as per their surrounding colour so that other predators cannot detect them.