For animals in the wild each day is a struggle to survive. They must continually search for food while at the same time keeping themselves safe from predators. Some animals have learned that with teaming up another animal makes the struggle to find food, shelter, and safety a bit er This kind of special relationship in which animals depend upon and benefit from one another is called symboss. One of the most visually surprising examples of symbiosis occurs between the fearsome African crocodile and the small bird when a plover is plover nearby a crocodile will open its long sharp-toothed jaws to invite it inside. You might assume that the plover would quickly this invitation reject and fly off Yet surprisingly, the plover does hop inside. Perhaps even more amazingly the crocodile, normally known for its aggression does not snap its mouth shut and have the plover for a snack. Instead, it remains still, not closing its mouth until the plower leaves. How can this strange behavior be The answer is symbiosis. The plover picks out all the small harmful animals attached to the crocs teeth. In explained? doing so it cleans the crocodile's teeth, which prevents the croc from getting infections. Because the crocodile can not clean its own teeth, it depends on the plover to perform this service. In return, the crocodile provides an easy meal for the power f symbiosis, like the crocodile and the plover each animal in the pair benefits from their relationship n some cas in a different way However, other cases, the animals share a common goal.This is true of the honeyguide bird and the ratel a furry creature with short legs and long claws. Both these animals live on grasslands in Africa and have appetite for honey As its name suggests, the honeyguide has a special ability for locating beehives. However, this small bird cannot open a beehive to get at the honey. To accomplish this, it teams up with the ratel. Ratels are a perfect match to the honeyguide as they love honey are large enough to crack open a hive,but have no ability to find hives themselves. The honeyguide flies over grasslands looking for a hive. When it does spot a hive, it swoops down and makes a noise to lert the ratelThe ratel uses its claws to tear open the hive After eating its fill, the ratel invites the honeyguide to finish the leftovers.Another two animals that team up to compensate for their own weaknesses are the zebra and the ostrich.These two animals often travel together.This is surprise since they are a perfect match. While no the giant. flightless ostrich has poor senses of both smell and hearing. the zebra has of smell and hearing. On the other hand, acute senses the zebra has terrible eyesight, while the ostrich has excellent eyesght, enhanced by its seven-foot-long neck which enables the ostrich to see far into the distance. In this deficiencies. As a result, the animals are far safer way each makes up for the others together than they would be lions, from far in te distance while zebras apart. Ostriches can see predators, such as can smell or hear others as they approach. Birds and land animals aren't the symbiotic pais.Some sea animals like the downfish and only ones that work in nemone do well. Sea which look like plants, are actually dangerous animals with poisonous as anemones, the sea tentacles. Most fish away from anemones to avoid being stung. However, th stay clownfish makes its home the sea anemones. It does not get stung because a of an its body is protected by a special Living among the deadly tentacles coating. anemone has a clear advantage-most predators stay away! Another benefit for the clownfish is that it is able to eat the anemone's leftover bits of food. But what is the advantage to the anemone? There are several. First, the brightly colored clownfish attracts predators.When the downfish swims under the anemones tentacles to safety, if the predator follows the anemone has the chance to sting and eat it.One services te downfish performs cleaning up food scraps and dead anemone are tentacles, and chasing away fish that might eat the anemone. while many symbiotic pairs may at first look like odd partners the benefits they provide one another are invaluable, and may make the difference between life and death In fact, it is often tese animals very dfeences that make them perfect partners.