Predator Hunting Strategies
Understand that predators have evolved hunting strategies — wolves hunt in packs, chameleons use their long tongues, spiders build webs, crocodiles ambush at water's edge — and prey animals have evolved defences — porcupine spines, skunk spray, poison dart frog toxins, zebra stripes confusing predators, playing dead
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Link hunting or defence features to an advantage without implying deliberate evolution.
Link hunting or defence features to an advantage without implying deliberate evolution.
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- Describes at least 3 predator hunting strategies with examples
- Describes at least 3 prey defence mechanisms with examples
- Understands the concept of an 'arms race' between predators and prey
“If your child watches a nature programme showing a lion hunting, can they describe at least two different ways predators catch food and two ways prey animals defend themselves?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Animals of the World
- Age range
- Ages 7–9