commensalism
one benefits and other is
not hurt nor helped

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using a second organism for housing such as
small mammal or bird that lives in holes in trees or orchids which live in
trees
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birds that live among cattle to eat the
insects stirred up as they walk - egrets hunt for insects near a grazing
animal's mouth
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clownfish
lives among the forest of tentacles of an anemone and is protected from
potential predators
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one animal attaching itself to another for
transportation such as
barnacles attach to shells or whales
or a shrimp
riding on a sea slugs
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mutualism
both species benefit

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flowers and
their pollinators (examples:
bees and hummingbirds gather nectar and
spread pollen)
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birds and
mammals eat berries and fruits while plant benefits by the dispersal of
it seeds
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coral reefs
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algae and
fungi > lichen - alga gets
water and nutrients from the fungus and fungus gets food from the alga
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cleaners eat insect pests from the skin of
animals (ex: Egyptian plover cleans giraffes and buffaloes)
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many
herbivores such as cows, sheep, deer, horses and rabbits depend on
bacteria that live in their stomachs to break down the plant material
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