Ocean Animals With Cool Adaptations

If the animals want to survive they have to adapt.

Ocean animals with cool adaptations. Common oceanic animal adaptations include gills special breathing organs used by some oceanic animals like fish and crabs. Deep Sea Creatures and Adaptations. The photic zone lies few hundred meters below the water.

The dolphins chase fish to the boats and signal where the fishermen should throw their nets. One of the major behavioral adaptations of marine mammals is their ability to swim and dive. Pinnipedsswim by paddling their flippers while sirenians and cetaceans move their.

In exchange the fishermen allow the dolphins to catch some of the fish they bring to the boat. Less amount of research has been done about deep sea creatures as the expenses of equipments for exploring deep sea is high. Coastal plants need special adaptations to survive.

They have strong shells that protect them from wave action drying out and the prying beaks of predators. They have streamlined bodies to help them swim fast and gills that suck the oxygen out of the water so they can breathe. The yeti crab is so unusual that a whole new family of animal had to be created to classify it.

Some of the most amazing adaptations are from ocean animals like sharks jellies starfish stingrays and dolphins. Encourage students to think about adaptations in marine animals related to obtaining food providing camouflage or safety from predators or dealing with changes in temperature salinity pressure lack of sunlight and need for oxygen. Over the years they have developed something of a partnership with local fishermanthey will drive schools of fish towards the fishermens nets and in exchange they have their pick of the helpless fish before the nets are.

Sharks are very good at finding food. For example many types of seaweed attach firmly to rocks so they are not swept away by waves. Snow petrels and a weddell seal share a tide crack for fishing in.