Mutualism-Both benefit
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Flying Squirrels eat truffles. The relationship helps both the squirrels and the truffles. It helps the squirrels by giving the energy to live. The flying squirrels will use that energy to fly and escape predators. People might say the truffle is not benefited by this relationship. The truffle is benefited because it gets it spores spread through the feces. More than one spore is in one mushroom. If the squirrels eat three mushrooms seven seeds might end up in the ground. The truffle is benefited as a species because more truffles grow and the population increases.
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Flying squirrels can eat nuts from trees. They eat the nuts for energy. If they don't eat the nut right away they could bury it to save it for later. If they forget where they buried the nuts the seeds could germinate. The nut could grow a tree and that tree would have more nuts. The squirrel is benefited by getting energy from the nut if it eats it and the nut is benefited by growing more trees.
Commensalism- One benefit's other is not harmed
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Woolly flying squirrels live in trees. They live in holes in the trees made by wood peckers. The squirrel is benefited because they have a place to live. The squirrels also have a place to hide from predators. The tree is not harmed because the squirrel is just living in it. The tree is still living. Even though there is a hole in it the squirrel didn't make it. The flying squirrel took it's house from the woodpecker after it was done using it.
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Woolly flying squirrel's sometimes dig on the ground to find food. While it is digging in the ground it can stir around fertilizers or nutrients in the soil. That will help the soil because more of the soil will get the fertilizer and nutrients. The squirrel is not harmed because the soil doesn't hurt it.
Parasitism-One benefits and the other is harmed
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Parasites like mites and ticks cold kill the woolly flying squirrel. The mites and the ticks are benefiting because the get food, the squirrel's blood. The mites and ticks also get a place to live, the squirrel's skin. The flying squirrel is getting harmed by the mites and ticks because they are drinking it's blood. The woolly flying squirrel could died if the mites and ticks are carrying diseases that they got from other squirrels.
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Mosquitoes can eat the flying squirrel's blood. That is why the mosquito is a parasite and can harm the woolly flying squirrel. Unlike the mites and ticks the mosquitoes don't live on the squirrel. Mosquitoes can also carry diseases. One of the big diseases they carry is encephalitis. The squirrels could die if they catch this disease.
Predator Prey Relationship
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The owl and the flying squirrel have a predator prey relationship. A predator prey relationship in different than any other relationship. In this relationship it is just one organism eating the other like in a food web. In this relationship the owl get energy from the woolly flying squirrel. The squirrel dies and gives energy to the owl.