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Hyan F __ Michael Jackson and the Animal Relationships __ Michael Jackson was taking his lunchtime jog in the desert with his pet the Cooper’s hawk. His bird was not very smart and annoyed the coyote. The coyote sprinted to the Cooper’s hawk. The Cooper’s hawk struggled to get away and in the end the coyote ate it. Later that day Michael Jackson got over his bird getting killed and he went on his dinnertime jog. During that jog he saw the coyote again devouring a camel. The coyote got a bloodworm from the camel when he ate it. The bloodworm was sucking on the coyote’s insides. The coyote seemed to be crying “Parasitism!” The next day Michael Jackson was watering his desert fan palm. Michael looked in the little hole he made in the tree. Somehow he noticed that there was a water bear drinking the water from the desert fan palm. The fan palm was not helped or harmed, but the water bear was benefited. Right after he watered his fan palm he noticed a couches spade foot toad. Michael Jackson took out his knife and dissected it. What he found was Streptococcus pneumonia which would benefit both the toad and the Monera. The Monera got the food from the toad’s insides and the better part for the toad is it gets its food digested better. Michael Jackson learned a lot about relationships with animals. He learned about predator and prey with the coyote eating the hawk. He learned about parasitism where the coyote ate the blood worm that he got from the camel. Also Michael Jackson learned about commensalism when the water bear was in the desert fan palm the fan palm wasn’t helped but the water bear was. Michael Jackson later learned that the Couches spade foot toad was getting help digesting his food by the Streptococcus pneumonia. BiomesThird10

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