Organism Interactions
Symbiosis: Endoecism
"A partnership in which one animal habitually shelters within the burrow or tube of another - shelter or protection is the dominate factor." http://www.gwu.edu/~darwin/BiSc150/Adaptation2/coevolve.html A seeing-eye goby gets a home...
The pistal shrimp builds the burrow which the goby darts into when it perceives danger. The goby acts as the eyes of the goby, which is blind. The goby monitors the goby's activities by resting one of its antennae on the goby.
Watchman goby (Amblyeleotris periophthalmus) and Pistal Shrimp (Alpheus bellulus)
All Images Copyright 2002 by Timothy C. Steelman