Relationships in Communities

Relation in which an animal hunts other animals for food, like for example the cat that hunts the mouse

• Predator-Prey Relationships

• Cooperative Relationships

• Symbiotic Relationships

Relation in which animals work together for their survival, like squirrel monkeys that live in groups hunting for food and watching for danger.

• Predator-Prey Relationships

• Cooperative Relationships

• Symbiotic Relationships

Is a relationship between two species that usually involves an exchange of food or energy, they are almost always found living together like flowers and bees

• Predator-Prey Relationships

• Cooperative Relationships

• Symbiotic Relationships

There are three types of symbiosis:

• Potterism, Grangerism and Weaslism

• Predator-Prey Relationships, Cooperative Relationships and Symbiotic Relationships

• mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.

A symbiotic relationship in which both partners benefit, like boxer crabs and sea anemones: the crabs carry sea anemones in their claws. The sea anemones have stinging cells that help the crabs fight off predators. The sea anemones eat leftovers from the crabs’ meals. Both partners benefit from the relationship.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

Is a symbiotic relationship that benefits one species but does not harm or benefit the other, like plants epiphytes, they grow on the trunks of trees. The epiphytes benefit by getting living space and sunlight. The plants do not help or harm the tree. The trees are neither helped nor harmed by the plants.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism.

Is a symbiotic relationship that benefits one species and

harms the other. The species that benefits is the

parasite. The species that is harmed is the host. Like the heartworm that feed on a dog, which causes a dog’s heart to work harder and eventually fail.

• commensalims

• parasitims

• mutualism