This disruption of co-evolved mutualism between humans and human microbiota, as a result of changes in human ecology, contributes to the increasing prevalence of chronic and degenerative disease ...

The human-canine relationship is a mutual relationship unlike any other, and the bond is usually never broken. The post ...

In a paper (Reciprocal signaling in honeyguide-human mutualism) published in Science today (22 July 2016), evolutionary biologist Dr Claire Spottiswoode (University of Cambridge and University of ...

People have observed that the birds will help hosts such as rhinos (which are short-sighted) evade humans. However, mammals and oxpeckers may not be a perfect example of mutualism, as the birds can ...

his research demonstrates the elasticity of organism behavior by showing fast shifts between mutualism and parasitism. The results of the study also have implications for disease treatment. Several ...

The tiny red-billed bird has been a subject of folklore in Tanzania and Africa as a whole; it has divided scientific opinions for years. Oxpeckers’ relationship with large mammals in Tanzania’s ...

It might be informative to think of the AI-human relationship as a mutualism — two species each providing the other with something they need. Computers are beasts of computational burden that ...

Mutualism is defined as an association between organisms of two different species that benefits both. It is much rarer, however, for humans to cooperate with nondomesticated species. In a recent ...

Foraging for wild honey is a tricky business. Bee nests are hard to find, and their inhabitants swarm and sting to defend themselves. But in a rare and millennia-old collaboration, honey hunters ...

In much the same way as humans discard a portion of honeycomb for the birds, badgers also leave some behind that benefit their “guide”. In these two examples, the importance of mutualism ...