These adaptations are the way an organism will act to help itself survive. This can involve aspects to help them hunt, hide, sleep, deal with the environment etc. Behavioural adaptations are passed down and recognised by other members of the species, again leading to the adaptation becoming common. A few examples:
Possums play dead to make themselves less appealing to feed on. The most convincing possums survive.
Scorpions dance to attract mates, the best dance will attract the best females, so good couples will reproduce and produce very well adapted offspring. Mating patterns are seen a lot in nature, birds etc. it is all about attracting the best mate, to pass on the genes. The mate with the best dance will often have very desirable characteristics to pass on to offspring,
Hedgehogs roll up to protect themselves from predators, revealing their spiky 'fur' that is unattractive and painful to predators.
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