Transcript Good Buddies Symbiotic Relationships

“Good Buddies”
Symbiotic Relationships
Project
Wild
Gazelle/Ostrich
Both live on plains watching
for predators
Cuckoo
• Lays its eggs in the nests of other bird
species, especially Reed Warblers.
Yucca
• The Yucca moth that is genetically
programmed for stuffing a little ball of
pollen into the cup-shaped stigma of
each flower.
Moth
deposits
its eggs
+ eats
seeds.
Whales and Barnacles
Barnacles
just hitch a
ride –don’t
hurt whale
Mistletoe on Spruce Tree
• Takes water and nutrients from the
plant they grow on
Oxpecker/Rhino
Oxpecker eats
ticks and rhino
stirs up insects
Shark and remora
Shark = protection
Ramora = feeds on food scraps
Army Ants and Silverfish
silverfish clean the nests
of army ants by
scavenging on refuse
without harming the ants
Wrasse Fish and Bass
• Wrasse fish clean bass by
removing and eating parasites and
unhealthy flesh from the Bass's
body. The wrasse gets food and
the bass gets cleaned!
Cowbird and Bison
Cowbirds follow herds of bison to
catch and eat the insects that are
stirred up from the bison's feet.
Birds eat the pests.
Mouse and Flea
• Flea benefits by getting the blood
of the mouse.
Deer and Tick
• Deer tick engorged with blood
from deer
Hermit Crab and a Shell
PROTECTION
Bee and Maribou Stork
• The stork uses its saw-like bill to cut up
the dead animals it's eating. This
provides areas for the bees to come
and lay eggs.
Honeyguide Bird and Badger
• The honey guide
bird leads the
honey badger to
honey nests,
which the badger
will break open to
eat the honey, that
then enables the
bird to eat a
portion of honey
for itself.