Each animal is adapted for certain kinds of environments. An environment is all the things that surround you. The environment includes such factors as temperature, light, moisture, atmosphere, and water. It also includes other animals and plants. For example, a fish cannot live on land. It also cannot live in water that has the wrong temperature or lacks the kind of food that the fish eats, and it cannot live at a depth where its body cannot stand the water pressure.

    The various factors of the environment in which any particular animal lives may not remain constant at all times. Most animals are adapted to withstand certain environmental variations. For example, birds and mammals maintain a fairly constant internal temperature in spite of limited temperature changes. Such animals are popularly termed warm-blooded. However, some warm-blooded animals go into an inactive state called hibernation during cold seasons. Invertebrates, fish, amphibians, and reptiles have no internal means of their temperatures, and canot survive wide temperature variations. They are popularly called cold-blooded.

    Fish and mammal travel regularly from one location to another to live better than they were. These movements, which are often seasonal, are called migrations. Some animals apparently migrate for feeding purposes. As winter comes on, for example, many plant-eating or insect-eating animals of the Northern Hemisphere go south, were growing plants and insects are plentiful. Dear, elk, and some birds that spend summers high in the mountains spend winter at muh lower elevations.

    The environments of many animals include cover and,shelter tall grasses give cover for many animals including antelopes, lions, snakes, and birds. Fish take cover among the stalks of water plants, and even the huge hippopotamus  can hide under water and lilly  pads by submerging up to its nostrils. The energy delivered from plants goes into building the bodies of these animals, and is transferred to the bodies of animals that prey on them. There are some plants that capture and digest insect, some animals such as aphids and certain ground worms live in or on living plants tissues.

The leopard gecko adapts to its environment by camouflaging its self to protect him from other animals that want to eat him. The gecko also camouflages so that he can hunt down his prey he looks like he is a leaf but his really putting on a disguise so that his prey does not know that he is there. When the gecko does this it has a better chance of getting his meal, geckos are cooled blooded animals that are very smart and know a lot about there surroundings. All geckos blend in with other sources around it, and they eat crickets, grasshoppers, and all the small insects it could find.

    Many animals can live on otherwise unfavorable areas because of the moisture and shade provided by trees and other plants. Numerals insects breed under bark of trees and shrub. Some animals help plant to reproduce. Certain insects, birds, mammals bees, hummingbirds, and some bats, for example animals  that visit plants for food or shelter carry pollen from one flower two another, bringing about fertilization. Seeds of plants are often widely distributed by being carried in or on the bodies of animals.

    Animals not only depend upon other animals for food, but may also compete with them for food. For example, plant eating insects such as locusts may compete with rabbits, rodents, and cattle, lions, leopards, and cheetahs may compete with another for the flesh of antelopes and zebras. Animals of the same species compete with each other primarily for food, but may also compete for shelter or mates. Animals of the same kind also often cooperate with each other. In some species, individuals assemble into groups for varions purposes. Birds, for example, form groups when migrating some animals live permanently in groups, often as a protective measure.

    When animals live in groups, there is usually a leader and a social order in which some individuals dominate others. Social insects which include the termites and certain species of bees, ant, and wasps have highly developed social organization.

    The castes perform such tasks as lying eggs caring for their young and guarding the nest and the group. The members of each caste differ in body structure from members of the other castes, making the division of labor permanent. Among certain other animals with a social order the same animals with a social order the same individual does not necessarily perform the same task all its life until it comes to an end where the mother dies and leaves her young already grown.

Marco De La Hoz