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The African savanna elephant holds the prize for largest living terrestrial animal, and now it apparently just set another land record: the longest distance mover of seeds. The pachyderms can transport seeds up to 65 kilometers, according to a study of elephant dung in South Africa. That's 30 times farther than savanna birds take seeds, and it indicates that elephants play a significant role in maintaining the genetic diversity of trees on the savanna.
This research: Seed dispersal kernel of the largest surviving megaherbivore—the African savanna elephant (DOI: 10.1111/btp.12423) (DX)
Older research: Seed Dispersal by Elephants in Semiarid Woodland Habitats of Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2000.tb00503.x) (DX)
Seed protection through dispersal by African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana africana) in northern Tanzania. (DOI: 10.1111/aje.12239) (DX)
Overseas seed dispersal by migratory birds (open, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2406) (DX)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @11:37AM (3 children)
When did further become a synonym for farther? 😢😭😢
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @12:07PM (1 child)
Requiescat in pace, English language.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:00PM
It's the c++ of human language.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:14PM
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/farther-or-further [oxforddictionaries.com]
Around the time when they renamed their dictionary to "living dictionary"?
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