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the end
ground zero
introductory story - Crescentia
Crescentia alata
fruit fall
Crescenia fruit crop
the Crescentia fruit
rotting Crescentia
a solution?
a watery solution?
clues
closer inspection
the art of eating a jicaro fruit
horse-dispersed seeds
the bait
scarification?
Pleistocene horses
ripple effects
a flower specialist
more ripple
horses eat more than jicaro
guacimo fruits
Guazuma ulmifolia fruits
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apple cores
if no dispersers
ground sloths
ground sloths
really big ground sloths
glyptodonts
camels
gomphotheres
mammoths and mastodons
mastodon molars
and they were big
megafaunal predators
saber-toothed cats
the hunters
more hunters
old world hunters?
anachronism
mystery dung
megafaunal bird
Australia?
five places
not just fruit
opuntia cactus
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tunas
jumping cholla
spines
after browsing
what is natural?
snakes and lions
morning after
lunch?
maribou stork lunch
snakes and hyenas
mongooses
jackals
coyotes
snakes
lizards
big herbivorous
REALLY big
REALLY long ago
gingko
what did it eat?
New Zealand
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