Many tropical tree species have seeds that are dispersed by ants.

Many ant dispersed seeds have special external structures, elaiosomes, that are sought after by ants as food.

The dawn of democracy in 1994 gave birth to hopes of an equal society, free from the prejudices of the discriminatory laws that kept South Africans apart for so long.

Production facilities When two stage weapons became standard in the early 1950s, weapon design determined the layout of the new, widely dispersed U.S. production facilities, and vice versa.

Thousands of Kurds took to the streets in celebration of Newroz, in a pre planned event, but were dispersed with water cannons, tear gas and kettled across Turkey today.

But instead of finding sanctuary from violence in the national capital, their peaceful march to the US Embassy was met with brutality as police violently dispersed the protest with tear gas and truncheons just as it was about to end.

The mistreatment of disenfranchised populations in the Philippines is, unfortunately, nothing new. Earlier this year, farmers asking for rice in Kidapawan, Mindanao were violently dispersed by police. And the Tumandok indigenous peoples in Panay Island will be displaced with the construction of a mega dam.