University:
Texas A&M University
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BIOL 357 | Ecology
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2024
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319

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2
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Amira Hester

symbiosis worksheet 1. Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves commensalism to whales 2. ticks feed on deer blood to the deers detriment parasitism 3. the stork uses its saw-like bill to cut up dead animals commensalism it eats. As a result, the dead animals carcass is accessible to some bees for food and egg laying. 4. Yucca flowers are pollinated by yucca moths. The moths lay their eggs in the flowers where the larvae hatch and eat some of the developing seeds. both species benefit. mutualism 5. hermit crabs live in shells made and then abandoned commensalism by sails 6. a cuckoo may lay its eggs in a warblers nest. the parasitism cuckoos young will displace the warblers young and will be raised by the warbler. 7. as buffalos walk through the grass, insects become active and are seen and eaten by cowbirds commensalism 8. Silverfish live and hunt with army ants. They share the mutualism prey. 9. Oxpeckers feed on the ticks found on a rhinoceros mutualism 10. wrasse fish feed on parasites found on the black sea mutualism bass body 11. ostriches and gazelles feed next to each other. they mutualism both watch for predators and alert each other to danger. since the visual abilities of the two species are different, they each can identify threats the other animal would not as readily see. 12. Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce parasitism tree to the tree's detriment. 1/2 13. A flea feeds on a mouse's blood to the mouse's detri- parasitism ment. 14. Remoras attach themselves to a sharks' body. They commensalism then travel with the shark and feed on the leftover food scrap from the shark's meal. 15. honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee mutualism hives. the badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first. then the honey guide birds eat. 2/2

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