Question

Which of the following adaptations would you expect to find in an animal in the alpine biome, but not in the taiga?

a.

hibernation

b.

migration

c.

large lungs

d.

large paws

Answer 1

Large lungs as alpines are mountains where pressure is high however taiga region is a plain

Answer 2

The correct answer is - a. hibernation.

Big portion of the animals living in the alpine biome tend to hibernate during the winter period, and the reasons for that are multiple, like food shortage, very cold weather, and very importantly, there's places where to take shelter and hibernate.

The taiga, on the other hand, comes to be more cruel in this aspect. It is a biome that in general has a food shortage, the winter lasts for most of the year, but the animals do not have any suitable places as to where they can hibernate, so they have to be active all the time.