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Close-up of a Bullhorn Acacia branch with red, horn-shaped thorns housing small Acacia ants, showing their symbiotic relationship. Green leaves are visible in the background.
Illustration of a red-capped mushroom wearing a red cape next to bold text reading 'Can fungi save the world?' with a smokestack in the background.
A white man in a blue shirt stands in front of an illustrated blue background with fish and the text "animal car wash?" across his chest, referencing animal mutualism.
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The Tiny Fungi Fighting Climate Change
These aren't your average mushrooms.
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How Different Animal Species Work Together
What do you call this type of animal friendship? Mutualism, of course.
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Acacia ants mutualism
Mutualism between acacia ants (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) and the bullhorn...
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Hummingbird moth pollinating a Dianthus flower.
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mutualism: yucca moth
In the mutualism between the yucca moth (Tegeticula yuccasella) and the...
Photographs, © Robert and Linda Mitchell
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