The Animal partnerships

*Sometimes animals and plants cooperative with each other so that both benefit. Certain animals’ cooperative with other animals. The living in cooperation with each other is called `Symbiosis’.
• Woodpeckers’ birds are that eat blood –sucking insects from the bodies of bigger animals such as giraffes and buffaloes. The birds get their food and the animals are happy to get rid pasts!
• There are many different kinds of cleaner fish. It is their job to keep the mouths and gill of other fish free from pests. To do this, these brave creatures swim in and out of the mouths of bigger fish!
Cleaner fish work at special cleaning stations’ under the sea –where fish of all different shapes, sizes and colors wait their turn to be cleaned!
• Although sea anemones look like flowers, they are actually sea animals. They have poisonous tentacles that keep enemies away.
• Some acacia trees have large, hollow thorns which provide a comfortable home for acacia ants.
These ants protect the tree from other insects and grazing animals by biting them. In return, the tree provides food for the ants in the form of a nutritious liquid produced in its leaf tips and stalks.
• Clownfish often live within the tentacles of sea anemone, but are somehow not harmed by their poison. Instead, the tentacles provide a safe home for the fish.
Scientists think that since clownfish are very protective of their living space, they also drive the anemone’s enemies away. Clownish also keep the place clean by eating up leftovers from the anemone’s meal!
• Leafcutters ants are the farmers of the insect world –they actually `grow’ their food! They travel for into the forest to look for their favorite leaves. They cut out pieces of the leaves and carry hem back to their underground nests. Here they chew them up and store hem till they rot and fungus grow on the. It is this fungus which is the real food of these ants.
• Garden eels are found in special areas on the ocean bed. They live in tubes in the sand. Thousands of them stick their heads up into the water and sway to and fro with the current like weeds, feeding n small creatures carried to them in the water.
• Deep –sea angles fish live at great depths within the oceans. It is very dark here and thus difficult to spot prey. Some anglerfish have their own fishing line and bait growing from the tops of their heads. The bait contains light –producing bacteria which make it shine. Prey is attracted by this glowing bait and is soon gobbled up!
• The moon art is the foulest smelling animal in the world! It smells a bit like rotting socks, or a combination of rotting onions and sweaty feet! It is found in Malaysia.
• The longest known type of giant earthworm is found is South Africa. It is about 1½ meters long and about 3 centimeters thick.