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Food and Consequences: Food for Monsters?
- dhimes 12y agoTL;DR Seeds are usually spread by animals ingesting them in one location and excreting them elsewhere. In that case, how do things with big seeds get dispersed? (what eats and avocado seed?). Answer: Large animals long since gone. Disclosure: I didn't finish the article. There may be a twist at the end.
- iak8god 12y agoDidn't finish? It's less than a thousand words! But your TL;DR is essentially correct. I would like to hear more about why these plants didn't die out when their only dispersal agents did. It would also be interesting to know approximately how numerous/widespread they were before and after the dispersers' extinction, but I guess tree fossils are hard to come by.