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DESCRIBE THE LOCATION: There’s a place where people rarely go and if they do go it’s usually because they are taking a hike. This place is called Gingers. To get here you have to walk upon a path that has an abundance of plants. There is also a waterfall that happens to flow into a pond but it looks like a pool. However this pool is made out of fresh water. The thing that I mostly see are the trees and the soft soil that stretched for a far as the eye could see. With every step we sunk into the soil because of all the rainfall that falls in this area. There is also a lot of sun that touches down on this place and both the rain and sunlight help the plants to grow. As I look around there are barely any brown on any plant and most of them are full green. When we got to the pond it looked brownish and a little dirty but it kept flowing through the stream. When we touched we felt the chill throughout our whole body it was so cold. We looked and listened for any creatures but noticed that we could see no animal species. However there was an abundance of red ants that represented the insect species well. We looked hard to find the anthill that they lived in but the ground was covered with so many leaves that we could see no home for them. Most of them were crawling along the rocks. It was hard to think of what the red ants lived on because from what I could see there was hardly any other living species. They couldn’t have eaten the crayfish or little fish in the pond or they would drown so what they lived on is still a mystery to me. However, we did see another species and that was the pigeons that flew up in the branches of the trees. They were as wild as can be. They fought with each other and swooped down to the water probably trying to catch some fish to eat. The fish were so small that you had to strain your eyes to catch a glimpse of them. It was a little strange that there were more fish closer to the waterfall and the farther away we went the number in fish decreased. When I went into the water I dove down to the bottom but could barely see the crayfish on the bottom. They were bigger than the once I usually see. They were mostly hard to see because they were a dark shade of gray, which kind of blended in with the water. However, another thing I noticed was that the pond was deep to dive in my ear drums were about to burst as I swam down to the pond that I would guess was around fifteen feet deep. NICHES: The birds were untouchable because of the fact that they lived up in the trees and the other species can’t get up to the height of the trees. Since the other species can’t reach them they are not prey to anything except maybe the other birds. They have no one to fight with over their habitat except of course the other birds. The also have a mutual relationship with the crayfish. Only the crayfish because the birds swoop down to the water but don’t affect the crayfish. There is a niche for the red ants and it’s a wide niche because of the habitat that they live in and they don’t really stay in one area as I could see they just keep moving. They probably survive on the plants for food and energy. I saw most of the ants on top the rocks and rarely any on top the dirt. The only predators I could see would have been humans because when we step and we usually end up killing a lot of them. The crayfish and the fish both have a large niche because they both live in the pond and have a whole stream to live in. The only difference is that the crayfish was on the bottom and the fish lived up on the top. They both have a mutual relationship because the crayfish never go to the top of the pond and the fish never go to the bottom of the pond. So they live in the same habitat but never pass each other or have contact with each other.