Saturday Morning Cartoons: Symbiosis

Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, a segment where four artists take turns delighting you with their whimsy, facts and punchlines on Saturday mornings! Our esteemed cartoon critters are Cameron GlavinAnna BongiovanniMegan Praz and Yao Xiao. Today’s cartoon is by Cameron!


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Cameron

Cameron is an illustrator hailing from Ohio. When she’s not drawing, she’s probably very, very quietly having loud thoughts about: queer things, her eventual shop, what to watch next on Netflix, food, names for her future pets, and tumblr.

Cameron has written 76 articles for us.

18 Comments

  1. Love this, so true! And the drawings are gorgeous! On a lighter note, at first I read “Or even the less common ammensalism,in which male coexistence is impossible”. Time to go back to sleep :)

  2. Wow your illustrations are so beautiful! There is something very comforting about them. I guess the texture. It’s funny that I love the bee and impala pics the most– since mutualism is my favorite and most positive concept from the bunch. Thank you so much for this!

  3. Hello I didn’t want to be a jerk and “but actually” in the comments of Cameron’s beautiful post but clown anemonefish actually do have a mutualistic relationship with anemones! They clean the anemones and give nutrients through their waste and also scare the bad guys away. If you go diving or snorkeling and get too close to an anemone you’ll see the anemonefish rise up and try to chase you away, the little cuties. Their swimming motion within the anemones also helps to circulate the seawater which allows the anemone to take in more oxygen even in areas without much current. Anyway Cameron’s words and drawings were beautiful as always, I hope this isn’t super rude of me. I just love the ocean a lot.

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