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Animals Carry Seeds

Rainforest trees often make fruit that animals eat. The animals carry the seeds away in their dung or on their fur, so new trees can grow.

In the picture

  1. Seeds beneath the parent tree
  2. Elephant dung holding seeds
  3. Antelope dung pellets with seeds
  4. Monkey holding a fruit
  5. Young green shoot

Examples

  • A bird eats a berry and drops the seed in a garden far away.
  • A squirrel buries an acorn and forgets it; an oak seedling grows.

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Biology, Age 12