Mutualism. Red-billed hornbill foraging on the ground. Mutualism is another form of symbiosis, but both species benefit directly from their interaction with one another. Yellow and red-billed hornbills enjoy a mutualistic relationship with the dwarf mongoose.

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Examples of Commensalism

• Remora fish have a disk on their heads that makes them able to attach to larger animals, such as sharks, mantas, and whales.
• Nurse plants are larger plants that offer protection to seedlings from the weather and herbivores, giving them an opportunity to grow.
• Tree frogs use plants as protection.

Humans, of course, benefit greatly from their mutualisms with agricultural plants, through the provision of crops of food, fiber, and other products. Similarly, agricultural animals live in a symbiotic mutualism with humans.

Answer: Humans and honeyguides have a mutualistic relationship, because they both benefit each other. Humans find honey much faster using the birds as guides, and the birds avoid being stung by bees.

In this picture the hummingbird is drinking nectar from this bright attracted plant and in this process the pollen gets on the birds neck or back when reaching for the nectar deep inside and the bird travels from plant to plant in a process called pollination in which the bird pass pollen from flower to flower.

Plants and birds have a mutualistic relationship, meaning that both benefit from the relationship. We are well aware that plants are beneficial to birds. After all, plants provide food to birds in the form of nectar (above) and fruits (below).

Some mutualistic symbiotic relationships involve one species living within another. This is the case with legumes (such as beans, lentils, and peas) and some types of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Atmospheric nitrogen is an important gas that must be changed into a usable form in order to be utilized by plants and animals.