Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5808856-20141104173641/@comment-26010249-20141109144210

BrimStoned wrote: Brandon Storm9 wrote: Well, I suppose you're right about that, perhaps we should alter the relevant pages. Actually, there are different types of parasites. Some harm their host, some help their host, and some don't do anything to their host. Symbiosis is a term for close and long term interaction between 2 or more species, which can sometimes apply to parasites. So skurd is a parasite. You got that on wikipedia didn't you ? I contributed a few there and the line "Symbiosis is a term for close and long term interaction between 2 or more species" is at the beginning of the wiki, you should have read the others.

Here's the shortened version, the important part.

Parasitism(parasitic relationship) - this is where one benefits while the other is harmed which sometimes causes death, although parasites don't want their host to die since they feed on their nutrients.

Symbiosis - this is where both benefits from each other and they also depend on each other for survival, where mostly no harm is done, but sometimes one is affected.

Mutualism - is where both benefits, no harm is done. Each activity of the other is good for the other. Mutualism is a type of Symbiosis.

Parasites are called parasite because they have parastic relationship with their host.