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They survive thanks to the mutual symbiosis with anemone, which protects clown fish among its poisonous tentacles.
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The main and only mean of protection for clown fish is the anemone. This is the reason why clown fish spend all their lives swimming nearby anemone. They protect each other. It is called "symbiosis".
They live in mutual symbiosis and help each other to survive. Anemone allow clown fish to swim very close to his poisonous tentacles. Clown fish defend and prevent anemone to be attacked and eaten by other fishes.
It's called mutualism and it's because both organisms benefit from each other.
Symbiosis is demonstrated by the clown fish being protected by the anemone's stinging tentacles from predatory fish. The anemone is protected by the teratorial clown fish from anemone-eating fish. The clown fish has a mucus on its body that keeps the anemone from stinging it and becoming a food source. They protect each other in a near perfect symbiotic relationship.
What is the unusual characteristics of the clown fish?
Clown fish live together the anemone, which protects clownfish from predators. This fish is the only species that is not poisoned by the stinging tentacles of the anemone. It is a perfect symbiosis. It is the main reason why no other fish species are living around clownfish. You may take a look at my website on clownfish: http://clownfishfacts.blogspot.com
Clown fish in french is poisson clown
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The Clown or Anemone fish lives in a "Symbiotic" relationship with its host Anemone in that they both depend on the other for food and/or protection. It is not a type of "commmensalism" where only one actually benefits from the relationship. In this relationship they both benefit from each other so this relationship is properly termed or defined as Symbiosis.