How does habitat helps animal to survive?

Answer 1

Every wildlife species requires a general environment in which to live. To properly manage land for the benefit of wildlife, landowners must be aware of those things in the environment that wildlife need to survive and reproduce. The environment or natural home where a wild animal lives is called its habitat. Just like humans, wild animals have specific requirements that they get at home. Habitat for any wild animal must provide:

cover (shelter) from weather and predators;

food and water for nourishment; and

space to obtain food, water, and to attract a mate.

This chapter is about understanding what habitat means to wildlife and how landowners can manage their property for wildlife.

The selection of habitat is a specialized process that has taken hundreds of years to develop. When an animal selects a certain place to call home, it often restricts itself to a certain type of area, and often will adapt for the particular combination of features found in that habitat. While shelter, food, and water are basic requirements, how wildlife obtain these requirements varies. South Carolina does not have pronghorn antelope because we do not have the wide-open spaces that these animals require. Similarly, South Carolina has an abundance of cottontail rabbits because the state has the type of habitat that rabbits require: a mixture of 1/3 grasslands, 1/3 croplands, and 1/3 shrubby or woody cover.

To understand how habitat affects wild animal populations, it is important to understand the basic components of habitat: food, cover, water, and space.

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Answer 2

Habitats provide everything an animal needs to survive.