Corals may look like rocks or plants, but they are actually marine animals. The bright colours of reef-building corals come from the zooxanthellae algae they have a mutualistic relationship ... may ...

The film "Parasitism: Parasitic Flatworms" explores the relationship between ... organisms live off other animals for sustenance. It explains mutualism through examples like termites and their ...

Animals often get labeled as either predators or prey. But in the wild, survival isn’t always a one-animal job. Some species ...

“We mostly think about plant signaling as targeting sight and smell, but here these plants are not so much giving a ‘shout out’ but a ‘shout back’ to the bats to come on over,” Rohan Clarke, an ...

For density-independent factors, such as environmental events of weather, demographic rates show no relationship ... For example, plants produce nectar resources that are consumed by animals ...

Plant-pollinator mutualisms are particularly important, and involve nearly 170,000 plant and 200,000 animal species ... 2003), are good examples of this extremely rare relationship.

If both partners feel the effects of the other, their relationship is called mutualism. In this case, each species tends to evolve adaptations to the other (that is, they coevolve) in order to ...