Acacia trees are a prominent feature of the East African savannah. They're also a classic example of the long-standing and complex relationships between plants and insects, in this case acacia ants.

Ant-acacia plants attract ants by offering specialized food and hollow thorns in which the ants live, while the ant colony in turn defends its acacia against herbivores. This mutualistic ...

Feb. 15 (UPI) --Acacia ants have an exceptional sense of vibration. As a new study revealed, the ants, which live in and on Africa's acacia trees, can tell the difference between the vibrational ...

Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on Feb. 14 find that the ants of the acacia tree are tipped off to the presence of herbivores by vibrations that run throughout the trees when ...

In the harsh, dry landscapes where few plants survive, one tree stands tall - the acacia. In this episode, we explore how ...

But when the branches held ants, the elephants avoided both types of acacia entirely. Palmer said the ants probably warned the elephants of their presence by emitting an acrid stench.

Ants in your pants? That's nothing compared with ants up your snout. And that's what elephants in the African savanna must contend with when trying to snag a meal from a certain type of acacia tree.

Ants living in whistling-thorn acacia trees on the African savanna may weigh only 3 milligrams, but they can protect their trees from being demolished by elephants weighing a billion times more, ...

The acacia species Acacia hindsii, which is native to tropical dry forests in Central America, is such a myrmecophyte. Its inhabitants are ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex .

It all starts with the whistling-thorn acacia trees in the plains of Laikipia, Kenya. Their study, published in the journal Science, found that the big-headed ants had led to a threefold decline ...

There are more than 20,000 species of ants, including such noticables as picnic ants, sidewalk ants, ... Once upon a time, they were all classified in the genus Acacia, ...