image: Elephants around the ant-plant, Acacia drepanolobium. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Jan. 11, 2008, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Todd Palmer and colleagues at University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., was titled "Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Nathan Gregory