Bumblebees can detect electrical fields around the flowers they pollinate. From weasels to monkeys to herons, smaller animals piggybacking or hitchhiking on other creatures is a pretty common way to ...

In nature, smaller animals often attach themselves to larger ones to 'hitch a ride' and save energy migrating large distances. Researchers show how microscopic Caenorhabditis elegans worms can use ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found. The journal PNAS ...

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In nature, smaller animals often attach themselves to larger ones to “hitch a ride” and save energy migrating large distances. In paper published on June 21 in the journal Current Biology, researchers ...