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How Animals Adapt
1. How Animals Adapt Informal Learning Project: Exhibit Design by Nelly Aragon
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3. A: Posters in Entrance Two posters in the entryway explain how animals adapt either structurally or behaviorally. The possum does both with his tail for climbing, and plays dead as a protective behavior.
4. B: Hibernation Cave There is a small cave in the corner made from paper mache and plaster which shows this fake squirrel curled up for the winter (behind protective plastic). A speaker on the roof narrates information on why they hibernate and explains their lower heart rate and temperature endurance.
5. C: Chameleons Tank This tank is split into two sections with two different backgrounds and house two chameleons that adapt to the color on their side.
6. D. Fur from Arctic Fox This is a poster fixed above two samples of fox fur attached to table one. The fur samples are totally different colors although they come from the same fox because they died during different seasons.
7. E. Fish Tank with Sideways Fish Halibut This fish tank has a light and a back poster explaining how the halibut, it’s inhabitants, use the sandy ocean floor to hide in by sliding under it sideways.
8. F. Zebra Poster and Information This life-size photo of zebras is on the North wall and has glasses hanging next to it so that you can view it through the eyes of a lion.
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10. H: Giraffe Cutout and Funhouse Mirror This fun exhibit artifact is a large poster of a giraffe and a description of it’s adaptive features next to a funhouse mirror where you can see what you would look like if you were adapted to eat from tall trees also.
11. I: The Camouflage Game The following slides are pictures that are shown on an interactive touch screen game where you point to where the animal is hiding in its environment.