Ants
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Tiny Bodyguards in the Mango Trees Imagine walking through a mango orchard and spotting leaves tangled together into strange green bundles. Look closer and you might find hundreds of tiny reddish ants marching aggressively along branches, guarding their leafy kingdom. These are weaver ants, Oecophylla smaragdina; nature’s tiny orchard bodyguards. For centuries, farmers in parts…
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In nature, the way species interact with each other can be broken down into different categories. Mutualism is an interaction where both individuals benefit, altruism is where one individual benefits the other at their own cost, commensalism is where one species benefits without any impact to the other, and parasitism is where one individual benefits…
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