Usually, when you see a symbiotic relationship between birds and large mammals, it is a mutually beneficial one, such as the case with the oxpecker and large grazing mammals in africa.
Not this time.
That is scary. I would not want to be a whale who's getting eaten alive by seagulls...
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yes, that is very scary. wow. (though I'm not sure how this is symbiotic?)
Symbiosis: Biology. A close, prolonged association between two or more different organisms of different species that may, but does not necessarily, benefit each member.
Is it close? about as close as the distance between a bird's beak and a whale's blubber when the bird is eating the whale's blubber. Is it prolonged? How long does it take for a bunch of sea birds to make that many holes on a whale's back?
Ok, so symbiosis might be a stretch, but is there a better term? short term parasitic symbiosis maybe?
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