Question

A carnivore with stripes on its body moves very fast while catching its prey. It is likely to be found in?
A. Polar region
B. Deserts
C. Ocean
D. Tropical rain forests

Answer 1

Stripes on the body helps animals to camouflage to the surroundings and make it harder for other animals to see. Carnivores are animals that feed on other animals for survival.

Complete answer:
Lets analyse the options one by one.
Camouflage is a mechanism by which animals hide in the environment, using their colour and patterns similar to the environment. It makes figuring them out difficult for other animals. This is used by prey to hide from predators as well as by predators to stay covered from prey’s attention.
Option A: Polar regions are mostly covered in snow and majority is white and light in colour. It would be difficult for a striped animal to successfully predate without getting noticed in the polar region. Animals living in the polar region are mostly white in colour because of the same reason. Therefore this is an incorrect option.
Option B: Animals in desert regions have adaptations like light coloured or brown coats and humps to store fat to overcome high temperature conditions. Therefore this is an incorrect option.
Option C: Oceans have a wide range of marine animals and their most important adaptation for predation is body shape suitable for swimming . Therefore this is not a correct option.
Option D: Striped animals like tigers, leopards are found in tropical rainforests and they are carnivores which feed on animals like deer, cattle etc. They move really fast to catch the prey. The stripes help them to stay unnoticed in the environment.Therefore this is the correct option.

Hence, the correct answer is option (D)

Note: 1.Tropical rainforests have high levels of biodiversity compared to other parts of the world.
2. Different animals live in different strata of the rainforest.