mutualism

The antimicrobial compounds ants excrete to defend themselves from pathogens may protect plants as well.

Aphids induce their host plants to produce tiny hairs that help keep the surfaces water-repellent.

Wasps use figs as breeding safe havens, pollinating their fruit shelters in return. Some wasps, however, solipsistically use their figs without fertilizing any seeds. 

A study suggests that humans and avians in sub-Saharan Africa communicate to find and mutually benefit from the sweet booty.

Parasitic mites that transmit a honey bee-infecting virus may benefit from spreading the pathogen, a study shows.

A pitcher plant species in Borneo attracts bat inhabitants by reflecting sonar signals from the flying mammals, advertising a cozy roost, and getting nitrogen-rich guano in return.

Scientists propose that the three-toed sloth’s risky bathroom behavior is governed by mutualisms with moths and algae.

Socially parasitic ants can serve as protective symbionts for their fungus-growing hosts in the face of attacks by predatory raiding species.
 

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An ant species that lives on a carnivorous pitcher plant keeps nutrient thieves from escaping by eating them.