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    Within tropical ecosystems, there are many habitats where countless organisms have relationships that are crucial for survival. These relationships include mutualism, where both participants benefit as in the relationship between butterflies and flowers; commensalism, where one benefits and the other is unaffected such as butterflies eating fruit; and predation, where one benefits and the other is harmed, as when a turtle eats a butterfly. The document instructs the reader to observe these different relationship types in the tropical forest exhibit.

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    Within tropical ecosystems, there are many habitats where countless organisms have relationships that are crucial for survival. These relationships include mutualism, where both participants benefit as in the relationship between butterflies and flowers; commensalism, where one benefits and the other is unaffected such as butterflies eating fruit; and predation, where one benefits and the other is harmed, as when a turtle eats a butterfly. The document instructs the reader to observe these different relationship types in the tropical forest exhibit.

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    Within tropical ecosystems, there are many habitats where countless organisms have relationships that are crucial for survival. These relationships include mutualism, where both participants benefit as in the relationship between butterflies and flowers; commensalism, where one benefits and the other is unaffected such as butterflies eating fruit; and predation, where one benefits and the other is harmed, as when a turtle eats a butterfly. The document instructs the reader to observe these different relationship types in the tropical forest exhibit.

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    Tropical Ecosytems

    Ecosystem Relationships
    Otago Museum

    Ecosystem Relationships
    Inside a tropical ecosytem there are many individual habitats. Within these habitats countless insects,
    animals and plants have relationships with each other which are crucial for their survival. Observe what
    lives in our Tropical Forest and how they use each other - in good ways and bad!

    YOUR MISSION
    Find examples of these 3 different types of relationships:
    1. Mutualism

    When both participants gain something from the relationship

    2. Commensalism

    When one participant gains and the other is unaffected

    3. Predation

    When one participants benefits and the other is worse off

    Mutualism
    How you record your information is up to you!

    In the relationship
    between a butterfly
    and a flower, the
    butterfly gets the
    nectar and the flower
    gets pollinated, which
    means it can produce
    seeds.

    Commensalis
    m

    How you record your information is up to you!

    When a butterfly or
    insect eats fruit, the
    fruit won't mind but
    the butterfly isn't
    hungry anymore.

    Predation
    How you record your information is up to you!

    When a turtle eats a


    butterfly, the turtle is
    no longer hungry, but
    the butterfly no longer
    exists!

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