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  • Some plants grow fruit that sticks to animals' fur and then falls off and grows elsewhere; this transportation is a form of commensalism.
  • Many lichens and mosses are commensal with trees.
  • Sea anemones grow on hermit crabs to catch more food. The crab is seemingly unaffected.

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