UDLS

Hey everyone, this is Matt. I'll be taking over this week's UDLS with the absolutely highlight of my biology undergrad at UBC: The Queen of Trees. This is one of the most amazing stories in the natural world (the documentary won a Peabody). The fig tree and fig wasp differ in size a billion times over, but neither could exist without the other. Their extraordinary relationship is a pinnacle of mutualistic co-evolution, and the basis of a complex web of dependency that supports animals from ants to elephants.