Seeds have many ways to get out into the world. Greg shares fascinating strategies plants use to disburse seeds. Related episodes: <a href= "https://natureguys.org/hedge-apples/">Hedge Apples,</a> <a href="https://natureguys.org/pawpaw/">Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch</a> Our sources for this episode include: <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.britannica.com/list/falling-far-from-the-tree-7-brilliant-ways-seeds-and-fruits-are-dispersed" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Falling Far from the Tree: 7 Brilliant Ways Seeds and Fruits Are Dispersed</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_H._Janzen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daniel Janzen - Bio and Research</a></li> <li>The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms by <a href= "http://thegreatstory.org/CB-writings.html" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">Connie Barlow</a></li> <li>Lengyel, S.; et al. (2009). Chave, Jerome (ed.). <a href= "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674952/" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Ants Sow the Seeds of Global Diversification in Flowering Plants"</a></li> <li>Howe, H. F. & Smallwood J. (1982). "<a href= "https://web.archive.org/web/20060513013354/http:/artifex.org/~ecoreaders/lit/Howe1982.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ecology of Seed Dispersal"</a> (PDF). Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 13: 201–228.</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRvmDdvVV0&t=15s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Ant Dance</a> - YouTube video with Greg Torres</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UxEQmENRu8" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Bird Dance</a>- YouTube video with Greg Torres</li> </ul>

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