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Animals benefit from working together. Plants and animals help one another too. This is called mutualism. Each species provides a service. Each helps the other survive. Read about some helpful relationships.
Impalas and Oxpeckers
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Impalas are bitten by bugs. But those bugs are food for oxpeckers. The birds keep the impalas clean.
Bees and Flowers
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Flowers make pollen. Bees eat it and carry some to other flowers. This helps the flowers grow.
Clown Fish and Sea Anemones
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Sea anemones have tentacles. They sting. But clown fish are not stung. They bring food to the anemone. And they get a place to hide from predators.
Sharks and Remoras
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Remoras are fish. They eat things off a shark’s skin. This keeps the shark clean.
Did You Know?
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Bacteria are germs. Some help break down food in your stomach. Some even produce vitamins. From us, they get food.