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Their feet are webbed allowing them to move more water, I.E. swim faster.

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What is the ducks adaptation?

one of the ducks structural adaptations is its webbed feet to keep it a float in water. a behavioural adaptation is that they only feed in shallow water, by wading in the water.


What adaptation has occurred in ducks that helps them in swimming?

Webbed feet perhaps


What type of adaptation is a duck webbed feet?

The ducks feet, being webbed, flat, and smooth help for a watery environment in 2 ways: # To swim better. # To walk on the soft, muddy soil around water.


How do ducks adapt to the water?

they have webbed feet


What does ducks webbed feet do?

It creates water resistance between the water and the feet to swim.


How ducks and turtle adapted to swim in water?

They have webbed feet


How are the ducks feet and bill designed for the water?

So they can swim, and eat.


What the name for duck feet?

Ducks have webbed feet. This helps these animal swim because its feet special design act like paddle when a duck is in water. Ducks are typically found in marshes, ponds, wetlands, and rivers. Ducks have a life span of up to 12 years.


What do sea birds use their webbed feet for?

Ducks have no blood vessels or nerves in their feet so they don't feel the freezing cold water.Their webbed feet also makes them go faster when swimming because if they didn't have webbed feet, water would go right through the spaces and they are adapted to living on water.


What is an adaptation for a water bug?

They have feet with wide surface area so they can walk on water.


What adaptation makes it possible for ducks to be such great swimmers and divers?

The adaptations that make a duck more suited to live in water rather than on land are a duck has webbed feet and wings. There are many reasons ducks prefer water. First of all, a duck's body has the legs far back, making them ungainly waddlers on land. Then,ducks have webbed feet to propel themselves easily through the water. Also,ducks have oil glands that secrete a substance that keeps their feathers dry and insulates their bodies. You can see them often, with heads turned backward, using the bill to spread this substance over the body.


Which Mammal feet flippers?

UM, ducks, geese. Its mostly mammals that live in water.