My Organism and its Adaptations

My organism is a combination of the yakut horse and an arctic fox. I have decided that i would combine both the adaptations of the animals to form my organism. 

My organism's adaptations:

• geraldine’s organism
  Features of my organism:
  • it is an omnivore
  • has a rather small and compact body, with a straight and short neck, and wide feet this helps the organism to lose less heat and retain its body heat easily in the arctic tundra
  • it is immune to most poison and is able to eat almost anything poisonous this helps when consuming the producer as it has poisonous berries named nightlock
  • Any poison that it consumes would be converted and exuded out as a fragrant smell to attract its mates during the mating season and when it is not the mating season, it would just be excreted out through the pores of the organism.
  • it has a long and bushy tail that also has a sharp end to it. This sharp end allows it to cut stems of deepika's plant so as to enable it to easily consume the plant without hurting itself. 
  • The sharp end of the tail can also be used as a form of defense from its predators
  • It gains as much body mass during the short summer, and makes use of the sun as much as possible. This fats gain can help it during the harsh climate of the arctic tundra for the rest of the year when food is scarcer.
  • It has large flat feet that has sharp ends, these sharp ends of the feet makes it able to use it as a way of attacking animals if necessary and a means of defense 
  • this sharp feet can dig away ice which may cover deepika's plant
  • Its bottom of its feet is somewhat rough so as to enable it to move on ice without slipping as there is more friction between the ice and the bottom of the animal's feet surface.
  • It is gifted with a sharp eyes and has a good night vision to spot predators and this is helpful as the tundra is in endless darkness during the winter.
  • It has a thick coat of white fur which is warmer than any other mammals. the white fur helps it to camouflage in its surroundings
  • the coat of fur is shedded during the short summer period so as to absorb as much heat as possible but is grown back by the end of summer
  • the skin beneath the fur is black in color so as to absorb as much heat as possible
  • it has short rounded, heavily furred ears to limit heat loss
  • Females give birth to as many as 25 young per year. However, most of these do not survive for more than 6 months,thus, the high birth rate helps to maintain population growth
  • it keeps its food underneath rocks during summer so that it can be eaten during the winter
  • it also scavenges on the food which ye xuen's animal, left behind
  • it has strong leg muscles and  runs at the speed of 20km/h this helps the organism to run fast enough to escape from their predators.
  • the bushier the tail it has the more it is likely to attract its mate as most of the fragrance it exudes is spread around through the swishing of the tail and the tail is what attracts its counterparts
  • it has a system in its body where in there is countercurrent exchange of heat which is attributed to circulation of blood and adequate amount of adipose tissues
  • its internal biomechanism has learned how to transform itself in order to regulate the rhythm and the volume of its breathing, passing from 20 breaths a minute during the summer to 10-12 during the winter,
  • When it is sleeping, it protects its nose from the cold by curling its bushy tail around its body
  • in the winter it often follows ye xuen’s animal and eats their leftover kill. If food is really scarce, it will eat the feces of other animals
  • sometimes it even makes its own freezer by digging a hole in the permafrost and storing its food there
  • A capillary rete in the skin of the pads on its food prevents freezing when standing on a cold substratum.    
  • decreasing basal metabolic rate is also an adaptation to the scarce food in winter
  • the rate of heat loss is seasonally constant due to an increase in the fur insulation and to a slight decrease in the skin temperatures during winter. This latter mechanism is probably a result of vasoconstriction of arterioles in the skin. A reduction in the blood flow will decrease the skin temperature, and thereby increase the overall insulation.