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Squirrels eat them regularly at my house.

• nerdponx 4y ago
  Squirrels and raccoons are very good at shredding even the toughest of pumpkin skins and garbage can lids. I'm sure they can handle some overripe fruit that plopped off a tree.
• masklinn 4y ago
  But do they spread the seed or do they eat the seed? The seed seems rather large, and the fruit is uselessly huge by comparison, it doesn’t seem much like the sort of things which would be adapted to being spread by squirrels.
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• Tagbert 4y ago
  Squirrels do eat them, especially the seeds. I suspect that they are not the ideal distribution vector for Osage oranges since they consume the seeds rather than distribute them. BTW - we always called them “hedge apples”
  • elihu 4y ago
    I suppose squirrels might end up propagating the seeds by stashing them away somewhere, then for any number of possible reasons, never actually coming back to eat them.