Climate Change Pushes Animals To Change Their Shape

 

Climate Change is not just a human problem. Animals must adapt to it as well, and some animals change their shape to regulate their body temperature.

Some 'warm-blooded' animals change shape and get bigger beaks, legs and ears to better regulate their body temperature as the planet warms.

Ornithologist "Sarah Riding" of Deakin University in Australia describes these changes in a review published September 7 in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

"The climate change we've created is putting pressure on animals, and while some species adapt, others won't," Riding says.

She adds that a particularly strong shape change has been reported in birds, and several Australian parrot species have shown an average increase of 4% to 10% in beak size since 1871, which is positively correlated with summer temperature each year.

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