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Look at images of animals & discuss how they have adapted to their environment. Explore issues about importance of taking care of the local environment. Make a large class poster to illustrate this. Look at film clips about animals & their habitats. Suitable for Y2 pupils.

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I’m doing a presentation for my homework and I need to know how Buffalo have adapted to their environment. All i’ve got so far is their horns (which can be used as defence against other predators)

By the way, it’s African Buffalo

Best reply by gardengallivant:

First your animal is a horned bovine species in the artiodactyla so having horns is a common character with other bovine species along with the split hooves and being a ruminant. What makes this species different from other related artiodactyla? Do the horns branch? Are horns on both sexes? Are the horns spiraled?

http://216.19.70.191/Artiodactyla/Syncerus_cafferFull.html

Syncerus caffer- African Buffalo is related to the water buffalo, anoa, gaur, bison & yak species and more distantly related to cattle & antelope.

They are stocky in build and are grazing animals unlike many delicate antelope species. They are able to graze tough grasses in a broad range of habitats from riparian shoreline, & tree grown swamps, to forests or grasslands.
All mammals have 4 types of teeth but not all mammals fully express all possible teeth in the same way. The Bovine upper incisors are not grown out. They have a tough plate opposite their lower teeth to tear off grass against. Their teeth upper/lower Incisors 0/3, Canine 0/1, Premolar 3/3, Molar 3/3 x 2 for both sides of the jaw. 32 teeth total

General bovine characters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovid

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/African_Buffalo

http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Cetartiodactyla/Bovinae.html

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Bovinae

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How do buffalo adapt to their environment?

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Two ways in which humans have adapted to their environment?

Best reply by Ted Sheckler:

Chemotherapy and SCUBA

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Two ways in which humans have adapted to their environment?