It turns out the trees missing from the invasive ants territory, the whistling thorn trees (Vachellia drepanolobium) have a mutually beneficial relationship with the local acacia ants ...

The remarkable partnership between East Africa’s whistling thorn trees and their resident ants is well known, but now a new study brings to light the trees’ relationship with birds.

Native ants historically protected acacia trees in Kenya's Ol Pejeta Nature Conservancy, but the invasive big-headed ants disrupt this harmony, leaving the trees vulnerable to destruction by ...

The case is interesting in another way. My son Francis has shown that the food bodies of the Bull's-horn Acacia, which are consumed by the ants that protect the tree from its enemies (as described ...