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The bulb-shaped plant homes, called ‘domatia’, are split into separate chambers. Each ant colony gets its own room, with no internal connections.

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Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that water ...