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But the seeds they did feed on were overwhelmingly from invasive plants, such as acacia trees: the ants were three times more likely to pick those up than seeds from native plants. “In the time ...

Relationship: In African savannas, ants and acacia trees have formed a mutualistic relationship. The acacia tree provides shelter and food (nectar and specialized nodules) for the ants ...

When building a bird nest in ant territory, the best defense could be an offensive fungus. Swollen-thorn acacia trees are aggressively defended by multiple species of ants. And yet, several ...

The professor said the plants in Panama look a lot like the mimosa trees in the Lynchburg area. Those plants also are the home of the acacia ants, which depend on the plant for food and habitat.

There are numerous thorn trees in tropical and semi-tropical ... In Central America, the bullhorn acacia is guarded by mutualistic ants that, in addition to living in hollowed-out swollen thorns ...

Twenty years ago, the savannah was covered with them. These trees provided food and shelter for native acacia ants and in turn, the ants defended the trees against animals, like elephants ...

The presence of invasive ants in trees indirectly reduced the number of zebras preyed upon by lions, researchers observed in a study at a nature reserve in Kenya. Published in Science, the study ...

Native acacia ants are killed by the smaller invasive big-headed ants, leaving whistling-thorn trees defenseless against elephants. Credit: Pat Milligan When people talk about the interconnectedness ...