How do animal like fish elephant and leaf insect protect themselves?

Answer: The spines help to keep the fish’s enemies away. Some animals have body shapes or colours that match their surroundings. This makes it easier for these animals to hide from their enemies.

How do animals like fish protect themselves?

Fish defend themselves using a variety of techniques. They use their color to camouflage themselves from predators. Fish use their five senses, and some have spines or venom. The defense tactics they use affect their behavior and their coloring, how they use their surroundings, and their body form.

How do elephant protect themselves?

Elephants have very sensitive skin and use mud as a form of sunscreen. They need to take regular mud baths in order to protect themselves from sunburn, insect bites and moisture loss.

How do leaf bugs protect themselves?

Leaf mimicry is thought to play an important role in defense against predators. Some species possess rows of tubercles on their antennae that when rubbed together produce sounds that may also serve to ward off predators.

How do animals protect themselves from other animals?

Camouflage and special body coverings are two ways that animals protect themselves from other animals.

Do elephants protect other animals?

Elephants support other species. Elephants have also been shown to be an effective focal species for conservation planning, as their habitat is highly correlated to other large mammals and species of conservation interest. Protecting elephant habitat helps many other species as well.

What animals prey on elephants?

Predators. Carnivores (meat eaters) such as lions, hyenas, and crocodiles may prey upon young, sick, orphaned, or injured elephants. Humans are the greatest threat to all elephant populations.

How do insects like stick insect and the leaf insect keep themselves safe?

There are no venomous stick insects (they have no toxic bites or stings). Some stick insects, like Peruphasma, can spray an irritating substance from glands on their back onto their attacker. This can irritate skin and eyes, allowing the stick insect to deter predators long enough to escape.

How is a leaf insect suited to its environment?

Leaf insects are closely related to stick insects and hide from predators by looking like leaves. This helps them to camouflage (hide) in their forest homes, where they eat leaves. When some types of leaf insect move they even sway in the breeze like a leaf, adding to the disguise.