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minus-squareBallShapedMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 months agoI saw a video saying that this was so that birds would eat instead of mammals. Something about spreading out further.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoYep! Only mammals have the nerve receptors to feel the heat. Herbivores grind the seeds up. Plants don’t want that. Birds, who can’t sense the heat, happily eat the pods and poop the seeds everywhere.
I saw a video saying that this was so that birds would eat instead of mammals. Something about spreading out further.
Yep!
Only mammals have the nerve receptors to feel the heat.
Herbivores grind the seeds up. Plants don’t want that.
Birds, who can’t sense the heat, happily eat the pods and poop the seeds everywhere.