Communities

Benefits and Challenges of Living

Together
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Living Benefits

Together Protection
Challenges

Competing for Sharing of

Resources Resources

Competing for Hunting Success

Leadership

Caring for the

Risk of Disease
Young
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Community – a group of the

same species interacting with
each other in a common
place.

Example: A pride of lions

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When there is lots of food, young

foxes may spend the winter with their
parents who provide food.

When food is scarce, the young foxes

are required to hunt for their own
food.
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A horse with a high rank may keep

other horses in the herd from getting
access to food and water until it has
had its fill.
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Cows live close together. Diseases

can spread easily through coughing
or sneezing
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Black-capped chickadees call “chick-

a-dee-dee-dee” when predators are
nearby. Extra “dees” at the end of a
call show the danger level.
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Ants carry food back to the colony

for the queen and other ants.
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Female lions work in packs of four to

catch large prey such as zebras. One
lioness drives the zebra forward while
two others chase the prey toward
another lioness lying in wait to
pounce.
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Adult emperor penguins watch over

the chicks from several families while
the parents look for food.