Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom Weird Friends Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom By Jose Aruego and Araine Dewey

Clown Fish Sea Anemone Rhino Cattle Egret Blind Shrimp Goby Ostrich Zebra Red Phalaropes Sperm Whale Red Ants Large Blue Butterfly Hermit crab Sea Anemones Impalas Baboons Horse Mackerel Portuguese man-of-War Forest Mouse Beetle Hippo Oxpeckers and Black Labeo fish Wrasse Google-Eye Fish Tuatara Snooty Shearwater Water Thick-Knees Crocodile

Why do you think it beneficial for the parasite not to kill it’s host? Could these organisms survive without each other? Why or why not? How do you think these organisms became adapted for living so closely together? How’s the humans relationship to a pet an example of symbiosis? What type of symbiosis?