The tigers have stripes because it is advantageous for them because they are an ambush predator and need good camouflage. The stripes are excellent camouflage for places that are shady, so the tiger can easily get close to its prey and attack it.
There's a very big possibility that the distant ancestors of the tigers did not had stripes. The reasons for that are different environment, but also that the stripes are actually a very rare type of pattern among the felidae family members.
As the environment started changing, the tigers needed to adapt to it, so they also needed a different camouflage. As some tigers in the population started to develop stripes, they were better hunters, thus were stronger, and seen as suitable mates for the females, as it would provide an offspring with the advantage that the male tiger has. Through this selection in the breeding process of mates that have advantageous camouflage patterns, the stripes were becoming more and more present, to the point where they totally pushed aside and eliminated the previously dominant camouflage pattern.
Hello there,
<span>A snake is about to eat some small eggs it has found in a bird's nest. A hawk swoops down and eats the snake. What is the role of the hawk?
I believe that your correct answer would be "</span><span>Tertiary consumer".
Hope this helps.
~Jurgen
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Answer:
d. The normal pH of human blood is already in the alkaline range.
Explanation:
The blood has an average pH between 7.35 and 7.45. Also, in blood there are some natural buffers that allows to maintain this pH does not matter the kind of food or substances that enter to our body.
If for any process the pH decreases a little bit, the body starts a process to recover the natural pH of the blood.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
The correct answer would be that <u>the availability of food resources for black mice and brown mice will decrease.</u>
<em>Since the food requirements of the black mice are the same as that of the invasive brown mice, the available food supply that used to be only for the black mice would now be shared by the two strains of mice. Hence, the available food for the two groups of mice will naturally decrease.</em>
There is no sufficient information to conclude that the population of tan mice will decrease, hence, option B is incorrect.
The black mice and tan mice have different food requirements going by the information available in the illustration, hence, both cannot compete for food resources. Option C is, therefore, incorrect. In the same vein, option D is incorrect because the tan mice have different food requirements from the brown mice.
<u>The only correct option is A.</u>
