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Midnight@slrpnk.netM to Wildlife Conservation and Protection@slrpnk.net · 27 days ago

How the disappearance of mastodons still threatens native South American forests

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How the disappearance of mastodons still threatens native South American forests

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Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the University of O'Higgins, Chile, with key contributions from IPHES-CERCA, demonstrates for the first time—based on direct fossil evidence—that these extinct elephant relatives regularly consumed fruit and were essential allies of many tree species.
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