Our most important feature as human beings is the sociality of clusters, where everyone lives in a collective and helps others for mutual benefit. Therefore, some people think that this characteristic is fundamentally different from animals, but it is not.
There are many animals of the same species, also social animals, that also live together in order to survive. For example: killer whales, foxes, lions, hyenas, elephants and other animals, they are like this.
In fact, in addition to the animals between the same species will choose to live together, there are many animals between different species in the process of evolution, they will also live together, take what they need, appreciate each other, just like the animal kingdom and the child stage.
Coyotes make friends with American badgers
Interspecific cooperative relationships are divided into several types, ranging from mutual benefit to unilateral solicitation. The relationship between humans and pets can also be seen as a type of interspecies cooperative relationship.
Biologists have proved through experiments that the pet dogs, the most loyal companions of human beings, have the consciousness to help their trapped owners, but most dogs do not know how to help their owners. There are many more examples of interspecific collaboration between animals of different species, with many animals at the bottom of the food chain working together to avoid predators.
Many herbivores such as antelopes and deer will live with monkeys or birds, when the herbivores eat under the tree, birds and monkeys also eat in the tree, whenever the danger is found, the monkeys and birds in the tree will give the first warning, and then scatter to run, then the herbivores under the tree will also escape.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > coyotes and badgers are close brothers</h1>
In this kind of interspecific cooperative relationship, the herbivores receive free help from birds and monkeys, get early warning information and flee quickly, and the birds and monkeys also give their hearts, regardless of return.
There are also mutually beneficial interspecific collaborations in the biological world, such as the North American coyotes, which are typically opportunistic predators and choose vegetarian diets when there is no meat, but the coyotes' favorite food is still small rodents.
But because they were large and not proficient in digging holes, they couldn't drill into the holes to hunt, so coyotes and American badgers formed an interspecific cooperative and mutually supportive relationship, they would live together, and they would lick each other's noses before hunting, just like pre-war deployment.
Coyotes drive animals such as rabbits or rats into burrows, where burrowing badgers burrow to hunt and drive away their prey, while coyotes that stand near the cave entrances enjoy it.
In this way, the American badger and the coyote can get more food because of this kind of interspecific cooperative relationship, and both sides are mutually beneficial.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > pikas and birds that live in peace</h1>
The interspecific cooperative relationship between the pika and some birds is more peaceful, the pika lives at high altitudes, they are very good at digging holes, when the hole is completed, it will attract some crows to live together, and the pika does not mind this, the pika and these birds began to accompany in their burrows.
This is the bird and mouse cave recorded in some historical records, they provide warning services for each other, if there is a natural enemy such as a snake invading the cave, they will notify each other and run away.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > grazing ants love aphids</h1>
Presumably many people know the relationship between ants and aphids, ants are very fond of eating sweets, and aphids can secrete sweet honeydew on the tail, and ants will raise aphids like shepherds. If other insects dare to attack the aphid, the ant will spare no effort to attack it and protect the aphid.
Sometimes ants will move aphids to densely leafy areas, graze aphids, and move aphids to ant nests when it is cold. With this careful care, aphids can produce more honeydew.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > parasitic relationship between cryptosks and sea cucumbers</h1>
When the relationship of interspecies collaboration is not well mastered, it may become a parasitic relationship. This is the case with sea cucumbers and cryptosquatches, whose relationship is more like a parasitic relationship. The hidden fish, also known as the sea cucumber fish, is a long stripe fish that lives in the sea.
Hidden fish have many natural enemies, and they often burrow into the body of sea cucumbers for self-preservation, avoid natural enemies, and seek refuge. Hidden fish within the body of the sea cucumber are not at ease, and they often eat the internal organs of the sea cucumber.
But fortunately, the internal organs of sea cucumbers can be regenerated, and if there is danger, sea cucumbers often throw out their internal organs to attract predators, but despite this, the sea cucumber protects the hidden fish, and the hidden fish eats the internal organs of the sea cucumber, which is similar to the parasitic relationship, and it also reminds me of "Mr. Dongguo and the Wolf".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > red-billed cow starling's careful thoughts</h1>
Others do not have such a good relationship as they seem on the surface, with two species seemingly intimate and secretly fighting.
On the African continent lives a red-billed cow starling, which often stands on the back of rhinos, giraffes and African buffaloes to help these large herbivores clean up their parasites and dander.
But the motivation of these birds is often not simple, sometimes the red-billed cow starling will peck hard at the skin of these animals, causing the animal to bleed, and the red-billed cow starling will take the opportunity to suck the blood of the animal.
At the same time, these wounds will attract more and more insects and provide more food for the red-billed starlings. During the breeding season, red-billed cow starlings even build nests with wool on animals.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > the first set of fish, the back set of fish of the rumble</h1>
In the ocean lives a species of fish called the bulge, which is a cleaning expert among fish, often helping other fish to remove parasites, bad scales or rotten flesh from the surface of their bodies.
But in fact, the favorite food of the longhead fish is the mucus of other fish to protect the skin, which is very important to the fish, so when other fish are nibbled on the mucus by the dragonfish, they will writhe and struggle wildly, and the other fish around them waiting to be cleaned will escape after seeing it, and will not let the fish come near them.
Gradually, the dragonfish also evolved a new skill, when other fish waiting in line to clean the skin, the dragonfish will be meticulous to help the fish clean up the parasites, and when no other fish are watching, they will take the opportunity to suck the slime from the fish customers.
Not only do animals of the same species help each other, but organisms of different species also cooperate with each other, although sometimes the purpose is not so simple. But good interspecific cooperative relationships allow these animals to survive better. The picture comes from the network intrusion link must be deleted.