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Why do clown fish and sea anemone pair up? What is this relationship called?

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Clown fish lives among the stinging cells bearing tentacles of sea anemone and gets protection from the predators . But the sea aneomone gets no benefit from clown fish. So the relationship between them is called commensalism.
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