avoiding adverse conditions

• migration - the seasonal movement of animals from one region to avoid adverse conditions. avoids metabolic adversity by using energy to relocate to a more suitable environment
• innate behaviour - inherited and plays the primary role in migratory behaviour
• learned behaviour - gained by experience and thought to play a secondary role in migratory behaviour
• migration is studied by satellite tracking - where a transmitter is attached and receiver picks up a signal and the animal is located
• dormancy - helps organisms survive adverse conditions by reducing metabolic rate.
• predictive dormancy - where the organism enters dormancy before the onset of adverse conditions
• consequential dormancy - where the organism enters dormancy after the onset of adverse conditions
• hibernation - a type of dormancy done by mammals, they reduce their metabolic rate reducing their energy requirements to save energy for winter
• daily torpor - state where animals metabolic rate and activity become reduced for part of the 24 hour cycle.
• aestivatation - a form of dormancy animals employ to survive long periods of drought