Question

Primates are frugivorous (which means they eat the fruits of plants). In doing so, primates acquire sugar-rich food and disperse the seeds, by dropping them off away from the parent plant. The likelihood of seeds surviving and germinating is much greater at a distance than it would be beneath the parent tree crown. This ecological interaction is best characterized as an example of

Answer 1

The answer is mutualism.

Step-by-step explanation:

Ecological interactions, or any interactions between two living organism can be categorized in 4 different sections. Mutualism, commensalism, competition and parasitism or predation.

For the interaction described in the example in the question, we can definitely say that it falls into the mutualism category because the outcome is beneficial for both organisms.

The fruit of the tree keeps the primates alive and the primates help the tree reproduce succesfully.

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