Question

Certain lizards dig burrows to avoid the heat of the day and emerge at night to hunt. When there are large numbers of these lizards, their burrows may intersect with each other. Raccoons are beginning to prey mainly on these lizards. The raccoons catch the lizards as they emerge from their burrows. Which change could occur if this continues?

Answer 1

Answer:

Lizards that use interconnected burrows to avoid raccoons will likely survive more than those who do not use interconnected burrows and they will pass this trait to their offspring which will increase this trait in the population and will help the trait to become more common in the population.

As this trait will become more common than less lizards would be picked by raccoons which will the group living of lizards. This process of selecting more adapted individuals in a population is called natural selection.