What is the symbiosis relationship between ants and the acacia tree?

Answer 1

They have a mutual relationship. At the base of the thorns of the acacia tree there are hollow lumps which the ants can turn into a hive. When animals, such as giraffes, start to eat the soft acacia leaves it vibrates the stems and the ants come out and attack the intruder annoying the giraffe so much that it stops eating at the acacia and moves on to find a less irritable meal. The tree then repays the ants by giving off a sweet nectar that the ants use to feed to there larvae. The ants also patrol down and around the base of the acacia and not eat but chew and destroy any other alien saplings growing in the vicinity of the acacia (not using a single bit of the destroyed plant). It is almost as if the ants know they are helping the acacia dominate and get as much water as possible.

Answer 2

At the base of the thorns of the acacia tree there are hollow lumps which the ants can turn into a hive. Take a Giraffe for example, as it starts to eat the soft acacia leaves it vibrates the stems and the ants come out and attack the intruder annoying the giraffe so much that it stops eating at the acacia and moves on to find a less irritable meal. The tree then repays the ants by giving off a sweet nectar that the ants use to feed to there larvae. The ants also patrol down and around the base of the acacia and not eat but chew and destroy any other alien saplings growing in the vicinity of the acacia (not using a single bit of the destroyed plant). It is almost as if the ants know they are helping the acacia dominate and get as much water as possible.

Answer 3

While the thorns of the acacia defend it against large animals (though elephants and girafffes don't seem to mind), insects can easily get around them. That's where the ants come in. By providing food and shelter for the ants, acacias get them to defend their territory against other insects, as well as birds and mammals small enough to fear ants. It is one of the rare examples of mutualism, a type of symbiosis.

Answer 4

Ants take shelter in the tree and in return the ants protect the acacia tree.

Answer 5

Many living things have relationships with other living things. The Acacia provides shelter and a source of food, while the ant protects it from everything.

Answer 6

its paratism, because the ants eat the tree and make it into a hive.

Answer 7

mutualism mutualism

Answer 8

parasitism

Pollination.