In Jamaica I saw Cattle Egrets sitting on cattle. They rid the cattle of nasty ticks, while having a good food source. A symbiotic relationship.
At the California Academy of Sciences, in Golden Gate Park, I watched Cleaner Shrimp clean other organisms of parasites. Again, a symbiotic relationship.
This morning Bob T. and I watched four Egrets follow a couple of River Otters dive for food. The Otters must have been stirring up some fish, or other under-water creatures, and the birds somehow profited from this activity. In my picture the Egrets are following along the shore, waiting for the Otters' next move. While reminded of the Cattle Egrets and the Cleaner Shrimp, I don't see this as a symbiotic relationship.
Whatever it was, it provided quite show!
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Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park consisting of 1,017 acres of public grounds. Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape but 20% larger than Central Park in New York, to which it is often compared. With 13 million visitors annually, Golden Gate is the third most visited city park in the United States
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