World Animal Day, A Day To Celebrate, Being October 4th 2015

World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October
4 , the feast day of Francis of Assisi , the patron saint of animals. It started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence, Italy who wished to highlight the plight of endangered species .

Ecological relationship

An Ecological relationship is the
relationship between organisms in an ecosystem . All organisms in an
ecosystem are connected. Each interaction depends on the one before it. Each population interacts with one another in a complex web of relations. Ecological relationships help better describe how they are connected.

There are six ecological relationships in which two are oppositional and four are symbiotic. The oppositional relationships are predation and competition . The symbiotic relationships are mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, and
parasitism .

The ecological relationship an organism has depends on the way the organism adapted to its environmental pressures on evolutionary bases.

Here are 4 things you can do to celebrate World Animal Day:

1. Make animals a part of your
conversations. Share what you know about animals. Start by discussing your favorite pets, but expand into animals you’ve seen on a walk in nature, in zoos, aquariums or reserves, or that
you’ve simply seen on television.

2. Expand your knowledge about animals; it’s an exciting adventure! Take some time to learn about a species that you are aware of, but don’t know much about. Reading is a great way to do this because you’ll get in-depth information and you can see pictures and illustrations too. There are many
excellent books available as well as
great websites like Animal World.com to help broaden your horizons. Just don’t be surprised if you find yourself discovering even more interesting animals.

3. Find the benefits of animals in nature, and share them! Try topics like bees cross-pollinating our flowers resulting in important foods, or the different types of predation that keeps the natural world in balance.

4. Share the wonderful aspects of animal ownership on all levels. You can help dispel the negatively held beliefs about specific breeds and animals. Discuss children connecting to the animal world with that first lizard, or the invaluable benefits to the disabled and elderly that an assortment of small animals that can add like a bunny, small singing finch, or a small lap dog!