A laughing gull is a type of bird that lives in coastal areas along the Atlantic coast. Their natural diet includes insects, mollusks, and small fish. They will sometimes eat eggs from other birds. In areas populated with people, they will scavenge for leftover human food. Imagine you are at the beach and see two hungry laughing gulls fighting over a small fish in a tidal pool. This is an example of _________.(1 point)

Question

A laughing gull is a type of bird that lives in coastal areas along the Atlantic coast.  Their natural diet includes insects, mollusks, and small fish.  They will sometimes eat eggs from other birds.  In areas populated with people, they will scavenge for leftover human food.  Imagine you are at the beach and see two hungry laughing gulls fighting over a small fish in a tidal pool.  This is an example of _________.(1 point)
Responses

interspecific competition
interspecific competition

intraspecific competition
intraspecific competition

between competition
between competition

reproductive competition

GPT-4o mini · Answer

This is an example of **intraspecific competition**. Intraspecific competition occurs when individuals of the same species compete for the same resource, in this case, the small fish.