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Or they produce it exactly because animals are entertained by it to spread its spores. Or it’s random. Or who the hell knows. 🤷♂️
Psychedelic mushrooms likely developed their “magical” properties to trip up fungi-munching insects, suggests new research
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180227115548.htm
Scientists. Scientists are who knows.
These things usually aren’t random. It takes energy for the organism to make it, so there’s usually some evolutionary advantage.
jokes on you I’m into that shit
Just like peppers, a sort of odd evolution when humans come into play.
Peppers devolved capsaicin to keep mammalian herbivores from eating them and grinding the seeds up. Birds have no capsaicin receptors, happily poop whole seeds everywhere.
Along come humans. “Let’s grown and refine that shit!”
Human: I outsmarted every plant with this MO; no toxic plant can defeat me.
Manchineel Tree: Challenge accepted.
Given the medical/psychological benefits being explored, it could even be “Your resistance only makes me stronger”.
Slugs: what effects?
Millipedes ·('m toxic, nobody will hurt me", Lemurs “Good stuff”
“Science“
