This document describes different types of relationships between individuals. Within a species, there are gregarious associations (unorganized groups), families (small related groups), and societies (organized groups with distributed work). Between species there are mutualism (benefits both), parasitism (benefits one at the expense of the other), and commensalism (benefits one without affecting the other). Examples include birds eating ticks off mammals (mutualism), fleas living on mammals (parasitism), and orchids growing on trees (commensalism).