Changing Colour: How Chameleon Catch Insects
Changing Colour:
How does camouflage help the chameleon catch insects?
The camouflage on the chameleon helps get close to prey without being spotted. The camouflage colour helps the chameleon blend in with the background to sneak up on the chameleon’s prey. The long tongue with a sticky lump at the end that it launches to catch insects.
How does camouflage help protect the chameleon from predators?
Not only does it camouflage to consume food but also to protect itself. The chameleon helps it protect itself by camouflaging, this informs other animals that this is not an animal.
What other animals can you think of that use camouflage for protection or to hide from prey?
There are lots of animals that try to camouflage to defend themselves against predators. The green tree frog’s bright green color helps them to hide in …show more content…
No it doesn’t because when a bird is born it would try to eat the monarch so every new born bird eats a butterfly. If this did not occur there would be over population of the monarch butterflies. The bird that eat also knows that the bright patterns on their wings don’t make them fierce.
Flying on Wings of Monarch:
Compare the monarch and viceroy butterflies. What differences do you see?
There are not many differences between the monarch and the viceroy butterflies. The only difference between the two kinds of butterflies are the viceroy butterfly doesn’t release a chemical that tastes bitter.
Other Disguises:
Why would bird avoid animals that have large eyes in the front?
The predator will think that the animal is very fierce and scary so they wouldn’t try to attack the prey. The prey also might fool the predator to think the butterfly is something else. They also might think that the might get eaten by the animal that they the butterfly is it.
Understanding Concepts:
What advantages can an organism gain by:
Looking like another kind of
How does camouflage help the chameleon catch insects?
The camouflage on the chameleon helps get close to prey without being spotted. The camouflage colour helps the chameleon blend in with the background to sneak up on the chameleon’s prey. The long tongue with a sticky lump at the end that it launches to catch insects.
How does camouflage help protect the chameleon from predators?
Not only does it camouflage to consume food but also to protect itself. The chameleon helps it protect itself by camouflaging, this informs other animals that this is not an animal.
What other animals can you think of that use camouflage for protection or to hide from prey?
There are lots of animals that try to camouflage to defend themselves against predators. The green tree frog’s bright green color helps them to hide in …show more content…
No it doesn’t because when a bird is born it would try to eat the monarch so every new born bird eats a butterfly. If this did not occur there would be over population of the monarch butterflies. The bird that eat also knows that the bright patterns on their wings don’t make them fierce.
Flying on Wings of Monarch:
Compare the monarch and viceroy butterflies. What differences do you see?
There are not many differences between the monarch and the viceroy butterflies. The only difference between the two kinds of butterflies are the viceroy butterfly doesn’t release a chemical that tastes bitter.
Other Disguises:
Why would bird avoid animals that have large eyes in the front?
The predator will think that the animal is very fierce and scary so they wouldn’t try to attack the prey. The prey also might fool the predator to think the butterfly is something else. They also might think that the might get eaten by the animal that they the butterfly is it.
Understanding Concepts:
What advantages can an organism gain by:
Looking like another kind of