Plants & Animals
- Flies Get The Hots For Daisies With Spots
- "The spots on the flowers mimic the plant's pollinator, a small fly, which is attracted to the plant because of the spots."
- Pandas Are Not The Only Ones
- "Ethiopia's mysterious Bale monkey eats almost nothing but bamboo, according to the first study of the primate."
- The Flower That Makes Predators Into Pollinators
- "A species of orchid, which lives on the Chinese island of Hainan, fools its hornet pollinator by issuing a chemical that honeybees use to send an alarm."
- Ants That Do The Seeds' Bidding
- "Our results show that chemical cues alone, rather than visual or tactile characteristics of (ant garden) seeds, are sufficient to attract (ant garden) ants and elicit the seed-collecting behavior that underlies the complex (ant garden) mutualism."
- The Wind Beneath Their Wings
- "A tiny species of wasp, just 1.5 millimetres long, can shuttle pollen between isolated fig trees in a desert landscape, flying up to 160km in a single night with the help of the prevailing winds."
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