ADAPTATIONS_HOW ANIMALS SURVIVE Like plants, animals are also found all over the world. They live in the hot desert and cold polar regions. Some animals live on the land and some other live in water. They natural place where an animal live and grows naturally is called habitat.
We, classify animals according to their habitats into the following groups.ttps://queenji.com/2024/10/19/adaptations_how-animals-survive/↗
TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS
Animals that live on land are called terrestrial animals.Elephants, tigers, lions, and dogs are some terrestrial animals.ADAPTATIONS_HOW ANIMALS SURVIVE
AQUATIC ANIMALS
Animals that live in water are called aquatic animals.Fishes, whales, turtles and octopuses are some aquatic animalsADAPTATIONS_HOW ANIMALS SURVIVE.
AMPHIBIANS
Animals that live both on land and in water are called amphibians. Frog, toads, and salamanders are amphibians.
Animals that spend most of their time on trees are called arboreal animals. Monkeys, gibbons, chimpanzees, and lizards are some arboreal animals.
AERIAL ANIMALS
Animals that fly and spend most of their time in air are called aerial animals. Birds, bats, and most of the insects are aerial animals.https://queenji.com/2024/10/19/adaptations_how-animals-survive/↗
ADAPTATIONS
Like plants. animals also devloped some special features in their bodies to live in their environment. The process of devloping special features in the body to adjust in the surriundings is called adatation. Organisms that are able to adapt themselves to their surroundings, survive others that are not able to adopt become extinct.
ADAPTATIONS IN ANIMALS ACCORDING TO THEIR HABITATS
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Adaptation in terrestrial animals
Terreatrial animals like elephants, lion and tigers have legs to walk and run on the land and lungs to breathe. They have well_developed nervous system and sence organs to feel the changes in their surroundings. some have scales to crawl in. For examples, snake, terrestrial. animals live in desert mountains and polar regions.ADAPTATIONS_HOW ANIMALS SURVIVE
- Deserts are hot and dry places, animals like camels are found here. They have thick skin with very little hair so that they do not lose much water
- Mountains and Polar reglons are quite cold. Mountain Animals like Polae bears and Penguins live in polae regions. They have thick fur on their bodies to keep them warm.Polar bears, penguins and seals have a thick layer of under skin fat called blubbber to keep them warm in winters they use the under skin fat as food.
ADAPTATION IN AQUATIC ANIMALS
These animals have fins or limbs to swim in water. Fins of fishes, flippers of turtle and webbed feet of swan help them to swim. They have special shapes of their bodies that help them to swim. Most of them breathe through gills like fishes and crabs. Whales and dolphin breathe through lungs.
ADAPTATIONS IN BEHAVIOUR
Animals have diffrent types of behavioural adaptations to surviven in extreme weather conditions.
- Hibernation
The deep sleep of some animals like polar bears, lizards and frogs during winter is called winter sleep or hibernation. During summer they eat a lot of food. Winter they become inactive and go into deep sleep.
Animals in desert like snake take a long sleep during hot summer month. This summer sleep is called aestivation.
- Migration
Siberian crans live in cold place. They do not survive in extreme cold winters. So they leave their homes in winter and fly thousand of Kilometers to warmer places in searcg of foof and shelter. They go back to their native places when winter ends there. similarly other animals also regularly move from one place to other, The seasons mass movement of animals to a more favourable environment is known as migration. Humpback whales feed in polar region but move to tropical oceans (when winter comes)for breeding.
ADAPTATION FOR PROTECTION
Animals are hunted and eaten by other animals. So they need protection from their enemies in their surroundings. let us see how animals adapt themselves to protect from their enemies.
The colour and shape of few animals, like zebras, leaf insects and grasshoppers, are such that they merge with the surroundings This is called camouflaging and these animals called camouflaging animals. Camouflaging make an animal hard to be seen in its surroundings. This adaptations protects from their enemies .A chaamelon changes body color according live in polar regions.
- SHELLS AND SPINES
Tortoise and snails have hard shells that cover and protect their soft bodies.
Porcupines and hedgehogs have sharp spinet to protect themselves from their enemies.
- STRONG LEGS
Animals like deer, giraffes and ostriches, have strong legs. They run very fast whenever they sence any danger.
- POISON
Animals such as bees and wasps have strings. They use their strings to inject poison into the bodies of their enemies.
Which is a terrestrial animal?
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g. most amphibians). Some groups of insects are terrestrial, such as ants, butterflies, earwigs, cockroaches, grasshoppers and many others, while other groups are partially aquatic, such as mosquitoes and dragonflies, which pass their larval stages in water.
Alternatively, terrestrial is used to describe animals that live on the ground, as opposed to arboreal animals that live in trees.
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Wildlife Insights Artificial Intelligence Models
The Wildlife Insights platform uses AI technology to drastically reduce how long it takes to convert camera trap data into usable biodiversity insights. Anyone who collects camera trap data can use Wildlife Insights to upload data to Google Cloud and access AI models trained to automatically classify camera trap images. The Wildlife Insights AI model is trained using Google’s open source TensorFlow library.
Here’s how AI can help:
- Filter out blank images: Many wildlife researchers spend hours manually removing blanks (images without an animal) from their data. Our AI model is trained to identify blanks so you can quickly review them and focus more on the hard-to-identify images. The model classifies images as blank only when it’s confident, reducing the possibility of removing valuable images of animals.
- Classify animals: Our AI model is trained to recognize 1,295 species and 237 classes higher in the taxonomic tree from around the world. The models aim to provide a prediction at the lowest taxonomic level they are confident at. For example, if the models are confident that there is a deer in the image, but aren’t sure about the exact species of deer, they will surface “deer” as the prediction in the Wildlife Insights application. Like humans, AI models generally get better at recognizing and identifying animals if they can look at hundreds or thousands of diverse images of a species. As more images are uploaded into Wildlife Insights and catalogued, we can train the AI models to be more and more accurate.
Get an inside look at Wildlife Insights AI models predicting species and blank images in camera trap photos
The Wildlife Insights AI model is trained with the largest curated dataset of labeled camera trap images to date, with over 35 million images across 1,295 species. You can help — adding your data to Wildlife Insights can help expand our AI capabilities to new species, existing rare species and improve our accuracy on the species already in the dataset.
Training Data
# of images: this is the number of images that went into the training data set for the latest version of the model.
Precision refers to how many of the model’s predictions were correct. A high precision for a given species means that the model tends to be right when it predicts that species.
Recall refers to the number of images that the model correctly identifies for a species out of all the images of that species. Note, that if the model isn’t confident about the exact species, it may produce predictions at higher levels of the taxonomy (e.g. Mammalia, Animal).
Unknown rate: Sometimes we know that our AI models are less confident about their own predictions, and instead of making risky, potentially wrong predictions, we mark those as “unknowns” (or “No CV Result”), so you know they need to be manually reviewed. In the table above we report the unknown rate for each species, which is the proportion of unknowns you can expect to receive from our model.
You can find examples of precision, recall, and unknown rate applied to Blue duiker, In the FAQ Section below, under Accuracy/How is the confidence of the model evaluated?
If the number of images for a particular species is less than 1000, this means our AI model is not able to make a correct prediction with confidence above a fixed threshold (the threshold is tuned manually). If you do not see your species of interest listed it means that we currently have no examples of that species in our dataset. This is all the more reason to contribute, so we can continue to grow the number of supported species in Wildlife Insights.
Learn more about assessing classification accuracy for AI models in general.
The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or