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Do animals and plants adapt to the climatic zone they live in?

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Do animals and plants adapt to the climatic zone they live in?

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Like I said in your other question (you’re using up points asking the same question over and over again, you know!): They do and they do not. A palm tree cannot adapt to living in Canadian zones! But a palm tree can live in an arboretum in upper Ontario ! ! ! ! Example of that is the “Prudhoe Bay National Forest”, which was a single pine tree growing in a planter inside the living area of the oil office in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a climate where no tree on earth could live outside. Yes, plants and animals can adapt, animals (fauna) more readily than plants (flora). That is because animals can move around, but plants also migrate by spreading their seeds or roots (sagebrush migrate by root spread!) If an animal or plant finds climate changing to be not desireable, then its method of movement (usually legs or wings for fauna, seed disbursement for flora) can cause it to move for distances appropriate for that life form. Now, LOCAL adaptation is another thing that takes hundreds if not th

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