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Symbiotic Relationships
The hippopotamus and the red-billed oxpecker have a mutual relationship. The oxpecker lands on the hippo and eats any insects and ticks who end up on it. Both animals benefit because the hippo is protected from ticks and the oxpecker gets food.
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Capuchin Monkey Mutualism – Monkeys eating the bugs off other Monkeys
Commensalism- bugs on the bodies of capuchin monkeys. The insects living on the monkey are getting the food and nutrients they need without harming the capuchin monkeys. Mutualism – Monkeys eating the bugs off other Monkeys
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Vampire Bats Vampire bats are predators to birds, small mammals, and bugs. They are also parasitic to larger animals like cows.
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Parasitism: When ticks live off of the kangaroos blood and are provided shelter from the kangaroo, and the kangaroo is harmed.
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Mutualism - the long eared chipmunk has mutualistic relationships with both trees and fungi. By consuming fungi, they help in the dispersal of spores of the fungi. Mutualism - The tree provides a place for the chipmunk to live and eat and the chipmunk removes the fungi which is harmful to the tree.
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Parasitism Parasitism – Ticks on giraffes. Ticks harm the giraffes. Ticks get food. Only one benefits. While the other is harmed.
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Mutualism Oxpecker birds get food and the giraffes, get the ticks removed. Thus helping both.
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Symbiotic Relationships
Mutualism: An Eastern Gray Squirrel eats acorns from an acorn tree, and they will occasionally lose the nuts and the tree population will increase its range while the individual tree has its genes dispersed. Commensalism: An Eastern Gray Squirrel uses a tree for a place to sleep and the tree gets neither benefits or harmed.
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What is it? Nematodes, otherwise known as round-worms, get nutrients from the zebras blood. Ox Pecker birds eat the ticks from the zebra. Cattle Egret eats seeds from zebras droppings
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