In Tanzania, we watched on many occasions when small flocks of red-billed birds descended upon the backs of giraffes, cape buffalo, elephants and hippopotamuses, prancing around like they owned them.

Noticing a nest in a tree can motivate the mind to wonder about many things. Is it a bird nest or a squirrel nest? If a bird built the nest, what kind of bird was it? Why did the bird build its nest ...

Mutualism describes a relationship that benefits both parties – the win-win of our world. A new study reports on a mutualism that goes from ants to trees to elephants to lions and zebras. It serves as ...

A recent flower event strongly recommends a vocabulary update. Botanists assign the corpse flower to the genus Amorphophallus, a group at or just over 200 species classified in Araceae, the Arum ...

When we think of different species interacting in nature, we might tend to think of predators and prey. But there are many other connections in our ecosystems that go beyond that. As organisms evolve ...

Symbiosis is from the Greek for “living together.” A symbiosis is any sort of persistent interaction between two species. Forms of symbiosis include parasitism, which involves a species living off a ...

The intricate relationships between cleaner fish and cleaner shrimp underpin some of the most compelling examples of mutualism in coral reef ecosystems. These interactions involve smaller organisms ...

A new North Carolina State University study finds that climate change could be destabilizing the mutualistic relationships between insects and plants. The findings could portend the future fracturing ...