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  1. A tiny, nearly-blind shrimp with a claw hot enough to rival the sun's surface teams up with a goby fish for the ultimate roommate deal: the shrimp builds and guards the burrow, while the goby keeps watch and signals danger. It's a real-life example of mutualism

    #mutualism #pistolshrimp

  2. "When two species interact to the benefit of both, biologists speak of “mutualisms.” But nice as these relationships may sound, they are rarely perfectly harmonious — in fact, they can evolve to become unbalanced and exploitative.

    Species can cheat or manipulate each other, or downright endanger each other’s health and survival. To stop that from happening, they’ve evolved a variety of mechanisms to control or even punish each other."

    knowablemagazine.org/content/a

    #Evolution #Mutualism #Evolution