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Do you’re telling me that it had nothing to do with swallows being either European or African?!
It could grip it by the husk.
It’s not a matter of where it grips it! It’s a matter of weight ratios!
I’m so glad that this 50-year-old joke is still funny.
Good jokes never die, nor do Black Knights.
What’s not funny is how old I feel now
A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.
Depends. Does the coconut weigh more than a duck?
I don’t know, I wasn’t expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
No one ever does
But then of course, uh, African swallows are non-migratory.
35 million years of coconuts in Asia and they didn’t float over until after traders established shipping routes to Asia?
I’m gonna cast doubt on this. It happened too conveniently after people figured out long distance sea travel.
If they would have floated it’s much more likely that it happened somewhere in the last million years rather than the last 500.
Yes, it is wrong. It was the result of the sea migrations of the Astronesians
The float yeah and that’s how they spread, but the coconuts were mostly brought by ships.
A coconut is really good on a ship 500 years ago, you have fresh water, some nutrition, etc.
Some ship gets destroyed with a load of coconuts on board and so it began probably.
Then when even the first ones have taken root, they start floating from isle to isle themselves.
No, it was clearly the Swallows gripping them by the husks!
I wish someone gripped my husk.
Play your cards right and my friend will.
Do they like role-playing?
They never leave home without their D20 sooo……
Not accurate. They were taken by Astronesians during their seaborne migrations.
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It also plays a central role in the Coconut Religion founded in 1963 in Vietnam.
follows the Coconut Religion link
The Coconut Religion was founded in 1963 by Vietnamese mystic and scholar Nguyễn Thành Nam,[1] also known as the Coconut Monk,[2][3] His Coconutship,[4] Prophet of Concord,[4] and Uncle Hai[4] (1909 – 1990[5]).
Oh, come the fuck on, now
Coconutship
Definitely a sex cult.
Repressed memory unlocked.
I was wondering how the heck coconuts journeyed around the southern passages for what would have been probably years on ocean currents and arrive in the caribbean still viable for growth.
Or carried by a sparrow.
Not really gonna happen.
They took the Panama Canal, obviously.
Is that an African or a European sparrow?
A swallow could grip it by the husk
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Lol, I need to start doing that
Caribbean from Asia? did they take the Panama Canal 400 years before it was built? there is not path that isn’t crazy
Asia via the Pacific to the Americas, then a swallow grabs one and brings it to the Atlantic coast.
They went around the horn like a real man!
I assumed one finally got lucky and got around the southern tip of Africa while headed west.
So the coconuts migrated, but the majority population of many of the islands were taken there as cargo?
Coconuts: the world’s strangest migratory mammal
