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Describe anatomical, physiological and behavioral adaptations of eagle,
kangaroo rat, gerbil and camel for conservation of water
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They possess the heavy heads & also with
strong /sharp beaks
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Their eyes are greatly helpful to find the prey and
their feet with intense talons & spicules are immense useful to grab the
prey
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Eagles contain
the big wing-span that’s are well adopted for flying
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Bald eagles are usually lived around the waters as like rivers or lakes and
they do hunt on the fishes as their diet & they fly over the water until
they capture the prey
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In addition, eagles don’t migrate but they travel as
far until get the food
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In the winter season there is
shortage in food so they flying over the water until getting the food
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While the
latest observations show that this type of way is not same
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Where the surface water is too low then these observations
are taken place in the arid environment
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Anatomical, physiological and behavioral adaptations of Kangaroo rat
for the conservation of water
Kangaroo rats are small in size and most of them are nocturnal rodents,
belong to the genus Dipodomys
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In harsh desert
environment, kangaroo rats adopt the adaptations to burrowing into the
soil for better survive
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Kangaroo rats adopt
various types of adaptations in which one of behavioral adaptation is
that they can recognize and escape easily from the predators
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Various physical adaptations like as
they possess short front feet for holding the prey & also have the intense
claws for digging the burrows which is greatly helpful for them to survive
in their habitats
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In the hot desert
kangaroo rats do not sweat because they contain the oily coats which
prevent from losing the water
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They are nocturnal rodents, they spent most of
their days in the burrows that is another adaptation to conserve the

water
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Moreover, they use those foods which contain some water so
their most of water is produced from metabolically
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When the air is pass over the
nasal tract that saturate with the temperature of 38C and also with water
so, the nasal tract gets cooling via evaporation so, the tissue surface
become dry and the lungs are protect
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Hence, these are the
adaptations which are greatly helpful for the kangaroo rats to conserve
the water even in the harsh environment
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Gerbils are
lived in the desert, grasslands and in dry-sandy places
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In addition, if they observe the danger then they adopt
behavioral adaptations by thumping their tails that warns to the other
gerbils to enter into their burrows
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The
temperature is high in deserts so, they can’t spend much time in the daylight so, mostly gerbils are active during night-time and they gather the
seeds with moisture
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Mostly gerbils are founded in the hot
desert so, they adopt various adaptations to conserve water for their
survival
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Their feces are too dry and the urine is also concentrated hence water
is lose too little
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The humps
of the camel possess the stored fat that can be metabolize when food & the
amount of water is low
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Camels possess the thick’ coats which insulate them and greatly helpful to
protect from the sunburn
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Camels are not lived in the burrows because of large size which
means that they have immense ability of greater distances for searching
out the food and also water
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So, a camel can live without water for 7-days
and can remain without food for few months
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Camels possess the hump which is an important structure to
adopt desert environment
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Some
physiological adaptations have adopted by the camels which minimize the
loss of water
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Camel lost only 1
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In the rumen & the foregut water is present that is used for some
days of de-hydration
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Their blood
cells are also greatly involved to homeostat the bodies of camels during the
de-hydration days because during that harsh period erythrocytes can live
for long span which minimize the energy & also the water expenditure and
the composition of blood last constant & the hemoglobin perform functions
normally
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https://www
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illinois
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pdf
https://animals
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com/structural-adaptations-kangaroo-rat3773
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pd
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it/~lacaprar/falchi/gerbil
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hilarispublisher
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pdf
https://books
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com

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