A tropical tree acts as a fickle but pragmatic landlord, report researchers in Brazil.
This small tree of the central Amazon, Hirtella myrmecophila, grows a pair of little pouches at the base of young leaves. Two-millimeter-long ants of the species Allomerus octoarticulatus move into the pouches.
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