Question

Imagine that you are studying the food preferences of a lizard species across its range. you have hypothesized that because these populations are fairly separate from one another, the lizards have evolved different food preferences. you discover that in the desert, the lizard seems to prefer various types of flies, whereas at higher, wetter altitudes, it prefers one type of beetle. does this observation support your hypothesis?

Answer 1

The lizards have to adapt to the environment to survive. The lizards may have always ate flies/lizards but once they reached the environment that produced opposite of their eating habits, they altered their eating habits. The lizards' adaptation will give them the ability to survive within the said environment that produce certain foods.