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- Prevent structural failure
- Protect from abiotic factors
- Protect from biotic factors
- Regulate physiological processes
- Beak design absorbs high-energy impacts: toco toucan
- Bones self-heal: vertebrates
- Intricate silica architecture survives forces: diatoms
- Web absorbs impacts: spiders
- Footpads dampen shock: bush-cricket
- Shell is tough armor: golden scale snail
- Insect elytra resist shear and cracking: beetles
- Tissues resist bending under stress: giant green anemone
- Crystals and fibers provide strength, flexibility: bones
- Coating protects during impacts: fleas
- Shells resist external loading: birds
- Spinal column has strength and flexibility: armored shrew
- Scales form protective layer: bony fish
- Fine strands stabilize bones: humans
- Acrobatics used to land: house fly
- Rolling into a ball for protection: armadillo
- Rolling into a ball for protection: pill millipede
- Rolling locomotion used for hilly terrain: Mount Lyell salamander
- Organic cases provide protection: bagworm moths
- Seeds survive extreme falls: Brazil nut tree
- Arrangement allows self-cushioning: spittle bug
- Feet used to slow landings: true frogs
- Bones absorb compression shock: birds
- Structures minimize materials, maximize strength: organisms
- Pads cushion feet: mammals
- Thin "shells" resist impact loading: sea urchins
- Elastic ligament provides support, shock absorption: large grazing mammals
- Shell protects, supports, and allows for growth: shelled mollusks
- Skeletal construction provides shock absorption: cats
- Spines work as shock absorbers: West European hedgehog
- Structures optimize material use: plants
- Exoskeleton absorbs shock: dragonfly
- Design features aid efficient attachment: lice
- Covering protects eye: pied kingfisher
- Body protected from diving impact: brown pelican
- Head protected from minor impacts: cassowaries
- Eyes protected underwater: crocodile
- Branches provide support: Russian thistle
- Body manages impact: woodpecker
- Shells are tough: red abalone
- Footpads manage increasing body mass: mammals
- Granules prevent slippage: orb-weaver spiders
- Larvae protected from predators: case-bearing leaf beetles
- Fibers contract and relax: spiders
- Hardened bubbles provide protection: foam-nesting frog
