• boraca@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Peppers are that way because birds don’t taste the hotness and they spread seeds further than other animals. I guess humans spread seeds even further as you can get them shipped from another continent really easily. Although birds also fly those distances, they poop more frequently.

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      9 months ago

      Humans also are really bad at returning digested seeds to the environment. Unlike all other life we process our shit