*Relationships in Nature by Kathy KinsNer

* Animals depend upon each other to survive

* Three types of predator-prey relationships

*Hunters and hunted

* Relationships where both species benefit

* Relationships where one animal benefits and the other is harmed

*Introduction

*Animals that hunt for their food are called predators.

* Animals that are being hunted are the prey.

*Predators kill their prey for food in order to survive.

* Chapter 1,hunters and hunted

*New construction in the everglades reduced the habitat of the apple snail.

*cause: the construction reduced the population of the apple snail.

*Effect: the snail kite was put on the endangered species list.

*Snail kite and apple snail

*Some predators are very fast and simply chase their victims .

*Some prey have adapted to protect themselves.

*Some prey survive as a species because they have so many babies.

* Predator techniques and prey survival

Most Important Ways

*Run swim or fly fast to catch your prey on the run.

*Run swim or fly for a long time, a cheetah can run up to 60 mph but can maintain its speed for only a few hundred yards

*Be patient, the polar bear waits by breaks in the ice

*10 ways to get a meal

*Scavengers are animals that eat the bodies of dead animals.

*The spotted hyena of Africa is both a scavenger and predator.

*Once a hyena makes a kill or finds a dead animal other hyenas join in the feast.

*Scavengers

* The partner ship between the clown fish and the anemone is a example of mutualism.

* The clown fish is a very slow swimmer so it hides in the sea anemone and attracts predators.

* When a clown fish attracts a predator the sea anemone stings it the clown fish is immune to this sting then the sea anemone swallow’s the predator and the clown fish gets left overs.

*Chapter 2,animal partners

*The remora and a shark is a example of one sided relationship.

*The remora have suction disks one their head to attach their self to a shark.

*The remora gets left overs from the shark meal.

*On sided relationships

Deer ticks are parasites that feed on the blood of birds and mammals.

Some deer ticks carry Lyme disease, a serious bacterial infection.

In the 1990s scientists developed a vaccine for Lyme

Disease.

*Chapter 3,parasitism

* In some parts of the western states humans are bike riding camping and hiking.

* It does not happen often but sometimes mountain lions attack.

*Only a dozen humans have been killed by a mountain lion in the past 100 years.

*Chapter 4,human as prey

*Animals that hunt are and animals that are being hunted are the .

*Question

*Cause: if the apple snails habitat is in reconstruction.

*Effect: less food for the snail kite to eat.

*Question

*Why are the clown fish immune to sting of the sea anemone but others are not.

*Question

*Why doesn't a big fish eat the wrasse when it comes in its mouth.