Posts tagged Symbiosis
Little ones...
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Don’t forget the little one. Easily over looked when there are bigger specimens to be seen. Here is a tiny little shrimp goby resting on the sand just outside the entrance to its little burrow, which is kindly maintained by an equally tiny shrimp. They have a symbiotic relationship whereby they each derive benefit from the other. The shrimp digs and maintains their home and the goby provides protection. As this is a long term partnership they live and grow together. So if you look carefully on the sandy bottom of dive sites you will find pairs of more or less equally sized shrimp and their buddy gobies, and they quite possibly have been besties since they were little. Shot on the East Coast of Bali.