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Some birds follow moving swarms of army ants in the tropics. As the ants march along the forest floor hunting insects and small vertebrates, birds follow and pick off any insects or small vertebrates that fly or jump out of the way of the ants. This situation is an example of what kind of species interaction between the birds and the ants?

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commensalism

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This type of interaction is comfortable as commensalism because in it one species benefits in this case the birds and the other species in this case the ants neither benefits nor harms. Birds benefit from getting food more easily.Commensalism is an ecological relationship between different species.

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