Cross-pollination: The pollen grain lands on a different flower to the one it originated from. As plants cannot move like animals they must adopt a different method of transferring these pollen ...

Animal pollination is important for two thirds ... "This includes promoting cross-pollination by taking into account the variety of the crop plants and the quality of the pollen.

Mutualistic interactions are mutually beneficial species interactions. Plant-pollinator mutualisms are particularly important, and involve nearly 170,000 plant and 200,000 animal species.