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Question
What damage or harm do ectoparasitic and endoparasitic animals cause?
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Solution
Parasitism is a type interaction in which one of the partners is benefited because it resides outside or inside the body of the host and gets free accommodation and food while the host is affected due to loss of nutrients. Ectoparasites and endoparasites devoid the host of its nutrition. Some of the parasites are known to cause diseases like Ascaris/roundworm which is an endoparasite of intestine causes ascariasis. Another example is of Wuchereria which causes elephantiasis or filariasis. It is an endoparasite which lives in lymphatic vessels of lower limbs. Lice or ticks which are found in humans and dogs respectively are examples of ectoparasites. They absorb the nutrients from their host.
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