Survival Instincts
🔐 Charles Darwin's Origin of species explains how survival instincts are acquired through adaptations and conveyed to generations by learning or by genetic transmission. Everyday life in the wild is a continual struggle to survive and remain in existence. Plants and animals have through time evolved to defend themselves against herbivory or predation. The predator-prey relationship is a perpetually dynamic one. Both kinds endlessly develop tactics and schemes by which they must survive. For example, if a predator discovers a strategy demonstrated by the prey, the predator modifies its tactics to overcome the challenge. In this article, we shall review mechanisms developed by preys that enable them to survive through time. In the constant struggle for survival between predators and prey, prey has evolved traits and mechanisms to avoid being devoured. These behaviours include visual information-transmission techniques (such as camouflaging, cryptic and colour display, self decora