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After carefully constructing a dung ball at the dropping site, these beetles immediately roll it away along a linear path avoiding intra- and interspecific competition for food and nesting sites.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
They engage in interspecific competition: that is, they share the environment with other species, competing with them for the same resources.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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- ecological contest
- struggle between species
- resource battle
- cross-species rivalry
Possible Antonyms
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- ecological harmony
- interspecific cooperation
- commensalism
- mutual aid
- resource partitioning
