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The Ecologist's Best Guess: Ostriches eat grass, and warthogs eat insects and the roots of grassland plants. When foraging, warthogs (like barnyard pigs) churn up the soil and make plants more accessible to the ostriches. In turn, the ostrich can see a long way off and the warthog has very bad vision. Probably the ostrich watches for predators and alerts the warthog if they are near so that both animals may escape. This relationship is an example of mutualism, a kind of symbiosis (interaction of different species) in which both organisms benefit from the relationship.

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