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Ant Perch, Borneo, 1996

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"In Borneo forests a pitcher plant and Colobopsis ants have struck a deal. The plant gives the ants room and board. In return the ants help their host digest insects—a new discovery."

—From "Ants and Plants," February 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Mark W. Moffett

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