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

2. 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

3. 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?