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=**Species Interactions Scavenger Hunt Wiki**= Parasitism: One species that feeds on part of another organism, usually by living off a host of another species - Example:

Mimicry- An edible species will mimic another nonedible species to avoid predation - Viceroy Butterfly and the Monarch Butterfly

M[|utualism]- Is the way two organisms interact where each one increases its [|fitness]level (increased reproductive output).

Example: Cow and bacteria relationship! Cow benefits from cellulase produced by the bacteria which the cow digests. The bacteria benefits from having a stable supply of nutrients because of the cow! Example of mutualism: humans release carbon dioxide to plants, as plants release oxygen for humans and animals. __Commensalism-__ The way species interact in a way that helps one but has little or no affect the other. This Youtube video shows an example...[|Clown fish and Anemone]

__**Parasitism**__: interaction between species in which one organism preys on another organism by living on or in the host. Example: [|Parasites eat holes in the skull of prehistoric T-rex's] {JW} __**Commensalism**__: interaction between organisms of different species in which one type of organism benefits and the other is not effected at all or by any great degree. Example: [|Jackals] in India trail themselves behind tigers and eat off the tigers kill so they dont have to get their own food. Tigers tolerate jackals on most occasions because jackals will warn them of a good kill sometimes. {JW} Example of commensalism: When barnacles attach themselves to whales.

parasitism- one organism bennifits and one is harmed. one example would be a leech sucking blood from my foot! actually happend to me!

__Predation:__ ﻿is where one species captures and feeds on another species. Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation always results in the death of its prey and the eventual absorption of the prey's tissue through consumption. i.e. - Lion chase

Mimicry: When one species looks like or acts like another. []

Parasitism: One species benefits from the relationship and the other species is harmed.

Example: Ants are social parasites!

Mutualism - Where both species benefit, i.e. A shark and pilot fish. []

Mimicry - The action of imitating someone or something, i.e. Stick bugs []
 * **Batesian Mimicry**: characterized by a harmless species imitating traits of a harmful species. LW
 * Example in nature: Many moths, beetles, and hoverflies bear traits similar to that of the Vespid wasp.
 * ** Emsleyan/Mertensian Mimicry: ** characterized by a dangerous species imitating traits of a harmless species. LW
 * Example in nature: Coral snake adapted similarly colored rings to that of the MILK snake. (Josh Hamann was incorrect). You tell em!

Intraspecific Competition: a particular form of competition in which members of the same species vie for the same resource in an ecosystem. Example: Two maple trees growing close together will compete for light, water and nutrients in the soil. Getting less resources, they will perform more poorly than if they grew by themselves! sea anemones compete for territory in tide pools. Interspecific Competition: a form of competition in which individuals of different species compete for the same resource in an ecosystem. Example: chipmunks and other species compete for pine nuts.