Where do different animals live, and what is a habitat?
Every Animal's Address
Where do different animals live, and what is a habitat?
Every animal on Earth has an address. Not a street and a house number, but a kind of place — a spot in the world where the food, the weather, and the neighbors all happen to fit. That place is called a habitat. It's the difference between somewhere an animal merely visits and somewhere it can actually live.
A habitat isn't just scenery. It's a whole life-support kit. It hands an animal four things it can't live without: food to eat, water to drink, shelter to hide in, and enough space to find a mate and raise young. Take away any one of those, and the place stops being a home.
