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Iran is defending its hosting of a senior Taliban delegation for an entire week in a move that analysts say is aimed at highlighting its influence and cultivating ties with the potential future government of Afghanistan.
The delegation, led by Taliban political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, held talks with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, amid criticism by many who pointed to Taliban atrocities and abuses by the extremist group, mainly the 1998 killings of seven Iranian diplomats and a journalist in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif after it was overrun by Taliban militants.
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Humans have dogs, damselfish have shrimp
We may not be only species to domesticate others.
Credit: Griffith University
Researchers have discovered that a species of coral fish uses shrimp to help fertilise its algae farms, which, they suggest, is the first evidence of a non-human vertebrate domesticating another species. Longfin damselfish (
Stegastes diencaeus) are known to aggressively defend the farms they rely on for food – but not, it seems, against planktonic mysid shrimps (
Mysidium integrum).
“We found that the damselfish keep swarms of mysid shrimps within their farms, providing them with a long-term safe haven from predators,” says Rohan Booker from Australia’s Deakin University, lead author of a paper in