Natural Selection (bunny) Lab

Problem

• To simulate the natural predator/prey situation of rabbits and mountain lions.

Hypothesis

• What structural and behavioral adaptations do you think will be the most successful in our simulation?

Procedure

• Color your rabbit (if you want it to be white you still need to color it with a white colored pencil)

• Other structural adaptations: cut it out, amount of tape (don’t use so much tape especially on my posters/paper/etc.)

• Behavioral adaptations- hiding • Next day- predators have 20-30 sec. to hunt for

rabbits

Record Data

• Photos of the survivors to study their successful traits

• Percentage of rabbits who survived

Conclusion

1. Describe your rabbit’s structural and behavioral adaptations. Also, write whether your rabbit survived or not.

2. Analyze the survivors of natural selection, what traits do you think they had that made them successful?

3. Explain what will happen with the next generation of rabbits. What traits will they have and why will they get those traits?