Adaptation

What is Adaptation?

Now, a few of you (seeing as how you are on this site) may have been wondering exactly what adaptation is. Well, adaptation is a process where a group of living things become better suited to their environments. The process takes place over a very long time, usually many generations, and is on of the many phenomena of biology. It is more often called a process rather than a physical part of the body. Some examples of when an animal may have to adapt is when searching for food, beginning to live in a new area, vocalizations and physical adaptions. The traits gained by adaptation can be behavioral, structural, or physiological. Before Darwin(see links section), humans thought that adaptation was a relationship betweena n animal and it's habitat. Another example is the leafbug; it adapted to it's leafy environment and began to look like a leaf to protect itself from predators. In case you were wondering exactly what a leafbug looks like, I have included the following photos.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT1IMT8Nx0#watch-main-area

(Sorry, I couldn't get the actual video on the site. It just wasn't working out.) 
Now you can see exactly why it's called the leafbug. Just look at those lines and indents. It looks almost exactly like a real leaf. Let's continue on to the next section: Duck-billed Platypuses!