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I know that many animals are burroweres, but i need more adaptations...

2007-08-22 10:18:46 · 0 answers · asked by KC 1 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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Kangaroo rats do not drink, or eat juicy food, but instead conserve their metabolic water by producing little urine, not sweating or panting, and having a lot of hairs in the nasal passages to keep moisture from escaping in the breath. They eat seeds and take dust baths in the dirt to keep their skin and fur in good condition. Since this leaves no way of self-cooling the body in hot weather, kangaroo rats keep cool underground when it's hot. [Metabolic water is created in all animals and plants when they use carbohydrates and oxygen to produce energy, water, and carbon dioxide. It's not much water.]
Jackrabbits cool themselves in the heat by sending a lot of blood through the big ears to release heat into the air. On hot days their ears look reddish. They also have a long lean shape, with long legs, giving more surface area to cool off. They have a very long small intestine, because their food (largely grass) is low in nutrition. The long gut allows more time and space for processing. It also allows the growth of beneficial bacteria which process the cellulose into starches digestible to a mammal. Mammals cannot get much nutrition from high-cellulose foods like grass, without the help of intestinal bacteria.

2007-08-22 18:13:51 · answer #1 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0 0

Chaparral Animal Adaptations

2016-10-16 13:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by adkisson 4 · 0 0

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