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ances here. The rain forest exists to-
gether with all these species. The disappearance
of a single species will damage several of these bal-
ances. 50

Indeed, such great harmony and interdependence
exist among some species in the forest that one cannot

survive in the absence of the other. Some 90% of the trees
in the rain forest need animals to spread their seeds, 51
while insect larvae, caterpillars, birds and other animals
feed on the seeds of these trees. For example, species of
fig tree and fig fly species are so interdependent that ei-
ther cannot survive in isolation from the other. In the ab-
sence of fig flies, fig trees cannot fertilize themselves, and
in the absence of fig trees, fig flies are deprived of their
natural habitat. There is a different species of fig fly for

every one of the more than 900 species of fig tree in trop-
ical regions! 52
Traits such as the fig fly's body and mouth structure
and the flower's structure and reproductive organs, as
well as the insect's flights and the times when the
flowers open are in complete harmony.
Accounting for this utter dependence be-

tween species has always been

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