If two species of woodpeckers eat two different kinds of beetle larvae on pine trees in a forest, we would identify that as:

A) resource partitioning. B) mutualism.
C) competitive exclusion. D) commensalism.


Answer: A

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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