COMMENSAL FEEDING: NATURE’S CO-OP

White Ibis & Snowy Egrets Foraging Together In Commensal Feeding

Different species of birds often stop their territorial bickering and competition to cooperatively forage together and improve one or both species’ success rate. This cooperation can take a variety of forms. For waterbirds it is often commensal, that is, one species benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed. A common form of commensalism […]

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