What's the Most Surprising Partnership Between Species?

Emily Schorr Lesnick is the co-host of the SoulGlo podcast, a show about how diversity helps humans thrive. Naturally, she wants to find out if diversity in nature helps animals thrive the same way it helps us. Thinking about unlikely animal partnerships might conjure images of kittens riding turtles, or fish and birds joining forces, but researchers Michele Lanan and Mary Jane Epps bring us some suprising (and actually true) examples of ways life in the wild couldn't continue without what biologists call 'mutualism.'

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What's the Most Surprising Partnership Between Species? is an episode from Completely Optional Knowledge by #CompletelyOptional.

This episode is 00:11:37 long.

This episode was published on May 17, 2016.

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