Symbiotic relationship 2
Biology
Level
pending
Both mice and rabbits eat grass. When 2 mice are placed in a rabbit cage, they steal the rabbit's food but the rabbit does not seem to mind. What type of relationship is this?
Commensalism
None of the above
Parasitism
Mutualism
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1 solution
The trick to this problem is that, because the rabbit is caged, it's not obtaining its own food, the human is simply putting the food there. In this little environment, maybe the human intended for the food to be the rabbit's, but the mice/rabbit aren't really differentiating. Mice and rabbit alike see the food, they take it. Because the rabbit's not obtaining it's own food, the mice are not benefiting off the rabbit's presence. Additionally, the rabbit is not being harmed because it has enough to eat. Furthermore, is this even a symbiotic relationship? This requires close and prolonged interaction, and so long as they're just getting food, they're not really doing anything else to each other. Thus, the answer is none of these.