Animals use various physical and behavioral adaptations to protect themselves from enemies. Some animals, like lions, centipedes, and wasps, use claws, bites, or poison to fight off or injure enemies. Other animals, such as chameleons and beetles, use camouflage or mimicry to blend in with their surroundings or resemble other animals. Many animals also live in family groups and protect each other when danger is sensed. Some animals, including turtles and snails, have protective shells they can hide within for safety.

1. How do animals
protect themselves?
 1. Lion have sharp claws to fight-off
and injure their enemies.
 2. Centipede can bite their
enemies.

2.  3. Wasp defends themselves
using their poison.
 4. An iguana can change their
color of its skin.
 5. A beetles pretends to be
dead.

3. Many animals have the color of the
environment they live in. some
animals protect themselves against
their enemies through protective
coloration called camouflage. This
adaptation allows some animals to
blend with their surroundings.

4. Other animals imitate the
shapes, smell, taste, color or
eve n the sounds of other
animals.
This behavior is called
mimicry.

5. Most insects secrete
chemicals that they use
to protect themselves like
squid, wasp, and snake.

6. Other animals protect their own kind.
Monkeys, elephant, and penguins travel
through the jungle in family groups. They
scatter themselves to look for food but
they do not go far from one another. They
stay within hearing distance. When there
is danger, they group together. They
protect each other.

7. Animals such as turtles,
crabs, snails, and oyster
have protective shell
covers. When they sense
danger they keep their
bodies inside their shells.