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Fruit-Consuming Birds | The Cove Forest

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Fruit-Consuming Birds | The Cove Forest
Episode 1
Animals that feed on fruit are frugivores. The most common frugivores are birds. Birds readily remove large numbers of ripe fruits from plants, and intact seeds generally pass through a bird's...
Leafy Stem with Abundant Acorns | The Cove Forest

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Leafy Stem with Abundant Acorns | The Cove Forest
Episode 3
The fruits produced by oaks (acorns) are an extremely important food source for mammals, such as squirrels, deer and black bear. Because acorns are rich in carbohydrates and proteins, populations of...
Squirrel with Acorns | The Cove Forest

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Squirrel with Acorns | The Cove Forest
Episode 4
In late summer and fall, squirrels collect and bury large numbers of newly ripened acorns. Many of these acorns are later recovered and eaten. Others, however, go undiscovered and can germinate and...
Close-Up of Seed with Food Body Attached | The Cove Forest

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Close-Up of Seed with Food Body Attached | The Cove Forest
Episode 5
Herbaceous plants of cove forests, such as violets, trilliums and bloodroots (as well as many others), have ant-dispersed seeds. Such seeds have a small lipid-rich food body attached to the seed. Ants...