superorganism
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- organism
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- Category:Superorganisms
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- swarm behaviour
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A superorganism, or supraorganism, is a group of synergetically interacting organisms of the same species. A community of synergetically interacting organisms of different species is called a holobiont.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “superorganism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.