Symbiosis

Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales.  The whale is unaffected.  

• commensalism

• mutualism

• predation

• laziness

Honey guide birds alert and direct badgers to bee hives.  The badgers then expose the hives and feed on the honey first.  Then the honey guide birds eat.  

• mutualism

• commensalism

• predation

• competition

Remoras attach themselves to a shark's body. They then travel with the shak and feed on the left over scraps from the shark's meals.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• predation

• competition

Wrasse fish feed on the parasites found on the black sea bass's body. 

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Competition

Hermit Crabs live in shells made and then abandoned by snails.  

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Competition

• Parasitism

Ostriches and Gazelles feed next to each other.  They both watch for predators and alert each other to danger.  Since the visual abilities of the two species are different, they can each identify threats the other animal would not as readily see.  

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

•  Mutualism 

• Competition.  

Mistletoe extracts water and nutrients from the spruce tree to the trees detriment.  

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

A hawk flies down and scopes of a snake, trying to slither into the ground

• Predation

• Competition

• Hungry

• Mutualism

 A flea feeds on a mouse’s blood and harms the mouse.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unharmed...

• Mutualism 

• Competition

• Parasitsm 

• Commensalism