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Malibou the Koala Bear was sitting in his eucalyptus tree drinking euclyptus juice. As Malibou was thinking, he thought of how this was an act of commensalism: he benefits from the tree, yet it doesn't benefit or harm the tree. When he went to refill his cup, he saw a strange materialism groing on his tree. He took a peace of that strange fragment and put it in his mouth. "Yuck! This stuff is horrible! And not my usual eucalyptus juice either." said the disgusted koala bear. "I better find out what it is from or else I might be in trouble." Malibou said to Perry, his pet parrot. 986-7652 Malibou dialed on the phone. //Ringggggggggggggg!// Malibou heard on the other end of the phone. "Hello? This is Trisha, the scientific tiger; how may I help you?" said the voice. "I just ate something disgusting and I want to know what it was. Could I have directions to your office?" asked Malibou "Surrrrre, but it will cost some money, you know, for mutualism."replied Trisha "Anything" "Allright, take a left then a right then three more lefts then two rights then go straight for a mile. Bye!" Luckily, Malibou brought his pen and paper pad to the phone. "Come on Perry, lets go!" called Malibou. And so they walked. He climed down away from his beautiful treehouse. He had only gone out of his house 1 time bfore when he dropped his Eucalyptus juice. He jumped into his never-before driven car and drove away. After about a minute he saw his 1st left at the last second. His car tail winged into the bushes. As soon as he got out of his dented and broken car, he saw a grizzly baer running towads him. Malibou looked around and climbed up the nearest weak tree. "I hate it when my prey do that! I'm the predator, I should eat you!" shouted the Bear. He started walking away, then he stopped at the car. He took something and left. Malibou scrambled down from the tree and checked the car to see what was stolen. "Oh no! The directions!" squeled Malibou. Malibou starts walking in circles, hands on his head trying to think what to do. He's coming up with many crazy ideas, but none of them are good. He notices a very small organism walking towards him. "Hey, are you Malibou? 'Cause if you are, I've got the greatest story. See, we were walking -." Malibou cut him off. "Yea, I am. What do you want?" asked Malibou. "I found a note with your name on it. Here, take it." he answered. "By the way, I'm E. coli." "Thank you, E. coli" "Dont mention it. It's somewhat like commensalism, you know?' Malibou looked at the note. His directions! Now he was back on track. Malibou took all the rest of his lefts and rights and finally ended up at the scientist's house. Malibou knocked on the door. "Hello? Whos there? heard Malibou. "It's me! Malibou!" answered Malibou. "Well come on in" she answered Malibou walzted on in like a mighty king, as he hought he was after his adventure. "Now, where is this thing you wanted to show me?" asked Trisha "Well, my parrot, Perrys got it. Wait... were's Perry? Perry?!?! Perry?!?!?!?!?!?!" The colorful bird swooped in through the door, with the weird organism clung onto by his long talons. "Sorry Perry, I completely forgot about you!" Apologized Malibou. "It's O.K."said Perry's squaky little voice. Trisha took the organism from Perry. Without even a second glance, she said, "This is a fungus. To be specific, it's Bracket Fungi. it infects trees, killing them. Parasitism. Wait a second. What's this? Huhhh! It's a protozoan! It must've infected the fungus, making the tree have an even less chance of living. Go back as fast as you can, but first, I want my money." Trisha said all this very fast, making it extremely hard for Malibou to catch everything. But Malibou's smart. He was able to catch all of it. Malibou gave her the money, she gave him the medicine for him and the tree, because Malibou may be infected from drink from the leaves. Malibou rushed home with Perry on his shoulder. He drank the medicine, and poured some on the tree. Then jumping into his hammock, he asleep.


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