Day One
On my first day observing the Honey Badger I learned new thing about the Honey Badgers food web. The Honey Badger is a omnivore so they eat both plants and animals. The things I saw mainly them eating were snakes, eggs, berries, rodents, and plants. After observing this I made a food web of my own that shows all the things I saw the Honey Badger eating.
Day 2, Today I observed the Honey Badgers mutualistic relationship with the Honey Guide Bird. I noticed that when the Honey Guide Bird spots a beehive it sends some type of call to the Honey Badger alerting the Honey Badger that it has found a beehive. Then the Honey Badger goes and finds the hive. He releases fumes into the hive which causes the bees to flee. Then the Honey Badger takes the honey and food out of the hive and eats it. Once the Honey Badger is done eating the Honey Guide Bird comes in and eats the scraps.
This is a mutualistic relationship because both animals are benefited by each other's actions. The Honey Badger is benefited by getting told where it can easily find food. The Honey Guide Bird is benefited by getting the scraps from the beehive that the Honey Badger left behind. If the Honey Guide Bird did not have this relationship it would not be able to get food from the bees because it is too weak to take on the bees by itself, it needs help from the Honey Badger.
This is a mutualistic relationship because both animals are benefited by each other's actions. The Honey Badger is benefited by getting told where it can easily find food. The Honey Guide Bird is benefited by getting the scraps from the beehive that the Honey Badger left behind. If the Honey Guide Bird did not have this relationship it would not be able to get food from the bees because it is too weak to take on the bees by itself, it needs help from the Honey Badger.