Question

Laughing gulls will scavenge for left over human food. If you are at the beach and see two hungry laughing gulls fighting over a small fish in tidal pool what is this an example of
Intraspecific competition
Between competition
Interspecific competition
Reproductive competition

Answer 1

The situation you described, where two hungry laughing gulls are fighting over a small fish in a tidal pool, is an example of **intraspecific competition**. This type of competition occurs between individuals of the same species (in this case, laughing gulls) competing for the same resource (the small fish).