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Interactions with the Environment
Images showing an organism interacting with or affected by its natural surroundings, usually depicting
adaptation or survival.
● Adaptation: a polar bear on an ice floe, penguins huddling.
● Tool Use: a chimpanzee extracting termites from a mound using a stick.
● Innate behavior, or Responding to Forces of Nature: a salmon struggling to get upstream.
Annual salmon runs are examples of innate The annual wildebeest migration provides many types
behaviour. Interactions with environments can of strong nature stories, especially when the herds
provide a strong nature story. reach the Mara river in the northern Serengeti, as
depicted above, and more impactfully, below.
A wildebeest plunges into the Mara river (Northern Serengeti, Tanzania), where instincts override the threat
of submerged crocodiles, creating a compelling nature story.
