Desert+Fiction

One normal day bacteria was sucked up from the ground and into the Calley cactus along with water and minerals. Lou the Lichen forms and begins to munch on the cactus. When Lou the lichen begins to dissolve the Calley cactus it consumes the minerals from Calley cactus, this process is known as mutualism. At the same Karyn kangaroo rat comes up and begins to eat the Calley cactus and starts to fill up. This is known as a predator/prey relationship between plants and animals. Then Cool coyote comes up to the full Karyn kangaroo and gobbles it up. This is also a predator/prey relationship between animals. As the Cool coyote walks around at night the rat begins to go through his digestive track and begins to digest it. The rat had ticks, five days later the Cool coyote is invested and dies of Dengue fever. The tick infesting the Cool coyote carries a type of parasite. Later the Cool coyote is rotted by bacteria by the effects of decomposition and becomes part of the dirt. The dirt is then used as it gets absorbed into the Calley cactus. Here we go again!

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