While working as an ecologist in North East Africa you happen onto a farming community that is surrounded by a forest. The forest contains many Acacia trees that are covered in ants. You notice that everywhere that the farmers have applied pesticides, all the ants have vanished, and so have the Acacia trees. Which of the following about the ants and Acacia trees is most likely false? Group of answer choices

This is an example of an obligate mutualism

This is an example of one type of symbiosis

The tree is likely providing some sort of benefit to the ant

The ants are likely defending the tree in some way

This is an example of a facultative mutualism