You are out on a hike, and you notice that the line of telephone wires you have been following along a slope is crooked. Two of the posts are much farther down slope then the others. What has likely occurred on this hillside?

the flagellates share a facultative mutualist association with termites. mutualism is a biological interaction between individuals of different species, where both benefit from each other. this is called cooperation and it differs from other interactions such as cases of exploitation, such as parasitism, predation. in this interaction called association, both species cooperate and benefit.

the most likely explanation for this is that his wounds have started to scab over and that stops the bleeding.