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Adaptations

Prairie dogs

Prairie dogs are highly social animals with both structural and behavioural adaptions that help them to survive in their habitat. Can you identify some structural and some behavioural adaptations of the prairie dogs?

The extinction of the dodo birds

An animal that is not adapted to its environment can die out quickly and become extinct. This is what happened to the dodo birds when conditions of their habitat changed drastically upon the arrival of humans.