Weirdest Animal Relationships | Top 5 | BBC Earth

[Music] the large blue was once extinct in Britain but it relies on farm animals in a way so bizarre you couldn't make it up meadow ants nesting in the grass may irritate the adults but are an unlikely asset for their caterpillars that's because large blues have a rather interesting approach to parental care their young are adopted by ants the caterpillar mimics the sound and smell of the ants own young and mistaken for a mislaid ant larva is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once underground the caterpillar leads a predatory life eating the ants own larvae until one day it's ready to change into a pupa and eventually emerges as one of Britain's rarest butterflies ants are vital to the butterfly but if the grass is too long they move out so without sheep to keep the grass short they'd been around and without the ants the large bloom would be lost [Music] they are curious about things that don't benefit their survival directly [Music] the flight tailed errors found late this year and as always turkey boys vying for some reaction but this time he's bitten off more than he can chew [Music] the young deer can give as good as she gets [Music] sweet peas favorite is far more amiable the fox squirrel seems to want to play as much as she does [Music] there's no question in my mind that these birds experience joy in their lives [Music] it was learning new things about turkeys every day but this was not just about how they lived their life these animals were showing me how to live my life also [Music] two meters 83 meters just an hour into their dive and the team has found a sunfish they've never observed one this deep before it's really elegant despite the fact that it just looks like a big dinner plate with two offense on either size sunfish can grow to be over three metres long and weighed two and a half tons it's the world's largest bony fish as it grows it gains an incredible 1 kilogram per day it's mean food is jellyfish so T Ernie thinks sunfish might be venturing down here to feed owner but today that after something else some fish skin carries as many as 40 different parasites but tiny organisms are removed by cleaner fish without this cleaning service sunfish would become infested with parasites compromising their health this is the first time that such behavior has been seen at depth in Galapagos like it's sort of it in another world right now it doesn't it doesn't seem like it's very aware of what's going on around it by taking that unusual attitude it's saying to everybody who could potentially clean it I'm ready for my spa treatment come in and exfoliate me I'm not gonna eat you I'm I'm at peace and come do your things for me they underscore how everybody plays a role everyone is what makes this system tick [Music] marine iguanas takin too much salt with their food but with the help of special plans they sneeze it out [Music] they also welcome these resourceful visitors sally lightfoot crabs like to groom them for algae parasites and dead skin [Music] lava lizards far smaller reptilian relatives have found their own ingenious ways to get by on this fierce shoreline [Music] they enjoy a special relationship with the sea lions the lizards rid them of flies which can be a ticklish nuisance this sea lion accepts these predatory lizards both benefit with hiding places at a premium fish will go to incredible lengths to hide down here and none more so than this the pearl fish is vulnerable out in the open so while not feeding it must conceal itself but it has a particular taste in hiding places this is a sea cucumber which feeds on the sea floor its body is basically a living tube it sucks in sand at one end extracts anything edible and passes waste out the other just what the pearl fish has been looking for but not the mouth end it's drawn to the odor of the other end sea cucumbers are repulsive to most predators so the pearl fish is safe inside it'll stay there until it's time to feed again it doesn't harm its host but the bad news for sea cucumbers is that pearl fish are happy to share their temporary home with others it seems there's plenty of room for all [Music]

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 969,697

Rating: 4.9184523 out of 5

Keywords: bbc documentary, bbc, bbcearth, bbc earth, BBC Earth Top 5, animal relationships with other animals, Weird Animal Relationships, BBC Animal Documentary, animals friends with other animals, animals with other animals, animal bonds with other animals, animals reunited with other animals, Inguana Documentary, Crab Documentary, Butterfly Documentary, Fish Documentary, Animals protecting other animals

Id: s9KvEg102Tc

Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 20 2019

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