Bird News | Bird Book | Bird Care | Home
State of the Nations' Birds
Dictionary | Encyclopaedia | Search | Visitor Information

 

Commensal

Eating the same food as another animal. Birds which raid crop fields, such as Woodpigeons Columba palumbus, are partly commensal with man. An animal whose whole life depends on another is a parasite, while one which obtains food simply as a result of the activities of another is practising autolycism.

Search Bird Dictionary

From Peter Weaver's Birdwatcher's Dictionary
Copyright © 1981 by Peter Weaver


Bird News | Bird Book | Bird Care | Home
State of the Nations' Birds
Dictionary | Encyclopaedia | Search | Visitor Information | Mail to Bird On!
Sponsored by Jacobi Jayne & Company