How human transportation habits help explain the behavior of tiny mites

Humans aren’t the only flightless creatures who have found a way to take to the sky to get around. Mites, some as tiny as the dot of this “i,” zip around the tropical forest they call home by hitching rides on hummingbirds who serve as living, breathing airplanes.


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Source: Phys.org