Barnacles are stuck to a whale. The barnacles benefit and the whale is unaffected. This is an example of communication commensalism parasitism mutualism

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Barnacles are stuck to a whale. The barnacles benefit and the whale is unaffected. This is an example of communication commensalism parasitism mutualism

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This is commensalism. One benefits and the other is neither hurt nor gaining anything.

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