Dung beetles live in regions where cattle graze quickly burying and recycling cattle droppings Becau...........

Environment and Ecology (Easy) Biodiversity

Dung beetles live in regions where cattle graze, quickly burying and recycling cattle droppings. Because of the dung beetles activities, breeding habitats for disease-carrying flies are reduced and the plants upon which cattle feed are nourished. The relationship between the dung beetles and the disease- carrying flies is a type of :

mutualism

commensalism

intraspecific competition

interspecific competition

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Explanation:

Dung beetles and disease carrying flies both compete for the same food, that is cattle droppings. Since both of these organisms belong to different species, this competition is called interspecific competition. Mutualism is an association shown by two species where both the species in concern are equally benefitted. E.g. the symbiotic association between nitrogen fixing bacteria and roots of leguminous plants. Commensalism is a type of association between two species where one is benefitted and the other is unaffected e.g. helpful bacteria in the gut of human being. Intraspecific competition is the competition within the members of a species for food, shelter and mate.