Review pictures and discuss the spots and stripes on animals. When we think of spotted animals, cheetahs are probably one of the first to come to mind. The bible has the answer.
Animals With Stripes Include Zebras And Tigers.
From the peacock tail and the eyespots of a butterfly, to the evolving camouflage of. These scales give them protection from predators. How animals got their spots and stripes—according to math.
They Come In Various Shapes And Sizes.
Let’s camouflage with noisy by nature host dr ann jones and figure out why giraffes have spots, zebras have stripes and chameleons change colour. Write each of these terms on easel paper near the reading rug. He found that many natural things incorporated patterns like spots and stripes in their development and he hypothesized that there might be a mathematical model that could connect and explain these patterns.
This Defining Feature Is In The Name Cheetah, Thought To Be Derived From The Hindu Word Chita For “Spotted One”.
Plains zebras are famous for their stripes (we even have crossings named after them in england), but they too are known to sometimes practice some artistic license, phenotypically speaking. They discovered that zebrafish skin. See more ideas about animals, animals wild, stripes.
Nature Provides Beauty To All Animal Species In The Form Of Stripes, Patterns, Bands, Dots, Colors, And Even Spots.
Read the book “animal spots and stripes” by britta teckentrup aloud to the class. A skunk is also an animal that has only one stripe. Download the episode transcript here.