Grassland+Fiction

=The Happy Rhinoceros = ​   One day there was a Black Rhino named Billa-Bong that lived in the African Grasslands. He loves his spot the grassland; it has short grasses, a large water hole and many Rhino friends! His best friend is surprisingly not a rhino, He’s an Oxpecker bird named Enzo. Enzo made companionship with Billa-Bong by Enzo eating Billa-Bong’s ticks, and Billa-Bong gives Enzo food and safety. Good thing Enzo eats Billa-Bong’s ticks, if he didn’t, the ticks would hurt Billa-Bong by them hurting his eyes because they are parasites that suck his blood. This is called Mutualism, Where everybody benefits. What the ticks do is called Parasitism, the ticks benefit from sucking Billa-Bongs blood but Billa-Bong doesn’t because it hurts his body. The only bad part about the savanna out here is that Billa-Bong has to watch all the lions attacking other animals. One time, Enzo almost got eaten from the BIGGEST lion! He was flying along, chirping to the drums you hear sometimes and suddenly, Lieinites the huge lion jump from a tree! He knocked Enzo out of the air and scraped his wing, Enzo trotted as fast as he could but Lienites was to fast he grabbed Enzo and opened wide. Just before Enzo was sure to die the wildebeest named Spartacus rammed into Lienitis! Lienitis ran all the way to the lions waterhole well Spartacus was praised by all the other animals, especially Enzo! This would be called the Predator/Prey relationship `where the predator wins and the prey loses (most of the time). One day Billa-Bong and Enzo went to Enzo’s parents house and saw them in a nest that was burrowed into a tree by them. This is Commensalism, where the tree gets hollowed out from Enzo’s parent’s and by that it hurts the tree. Enzo’s parents needed to hollow it out to have a nest there, so it’s a win for Enzo’s family, and a lose for the tree. Billa-Bong and Enzo have an awesome life in the African Savanna!

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