9 Interesting Animal Adaptations

By Animal Planet

In the wild, the will to survive can inspire animals to adapt to their environment in amazing ways. Check out these nine incredible animal adaptations!

1. Living Together

Of all the wonderful adaptations in the animal kingdom, perhaps the most important is the habit of living together in communal or family groups. Animals can derive a lot of benefit from spending time with other members of the same species. They can help each other find food, defend against predators and care for young. Countless species engage in group living, either in herds, colonies, harems, complex societies or loose associations. But perhaps the simplest and most common form of group living in the natural world is that of nuclear families, which may consist of a male/female couple with their young, a single male and various females and young, a group of females and their young, or whatever combination works best.

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Marianne G.

10:25AM PDT on Apr 23, 2013

Thanks for sharing.

April 23
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Beth W.

7:04AM PDT on Sep 12, 2012

Nature is amazing!

September 12
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Mary E.

4:58AM PDT on Jul 18, 2012

Some are pretty obvious, others I wouldn't have thought of so quickly. Interesting.

July 18
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Mari G.

6:11PM PDT on Jul 15, 2012

Interesting. These things seem so simple but make a big difference.

July 15
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Biby C.

11:03PM PDT on Jul 14, 2012

Nature is just fascinating. As is evolution. Thanks to Darwin and Wallace, we can understand how things work. Adaption is key to life and there're many counter adaptions as well. One good example is predation in flight. One would think birds can fly off to safety but there's danger in the skies too!