Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. How does it reproduce so that its offspring don’t grow up in its shadow, fighting for light?

It's long been known that some plants disperse their seeds by "hitchhiking" on animals, with the seeds clinging to fur or feathers ... Such seed dispersal has been critical to plants throughout ...

Pictured: Cedar waxwing Andrew C via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Half of all plant species rely on animals to scatter their seeds through hitchhiking in scat, fur, or beaks. When animal ...

It discusses how humans collect seeds for agriculture, while also examining natural dispersal mechanisms such as wind, water, and animal transport. The film illustrates how seeds of different ...

Both obligate and opportunistic frugivores are capable of dispersing seeds. There is little evidence for obligate plant-animal mutualisms in palm seed dispersal ecology.

That means “something else, something big, should be responsible,” says Claudio Monteza, of the Max Planck Institute of Animal ... fur. Also spotted was a white-faced capuchin monkey, a ...

A recent study conducted by Yale School of the Environment researchers discovered that animals — particularly flightless mammals — are key players in the seed dispersal of trees in recovering tropical ...

Animals that are highly vagile are considered to be the most efficient at active dispersal. Highly vagile animals include many species of birds, bats, and large insects. The Monarch butterfly ...

Each seed is attached to the calyx of its flower, which helps it float in water or attach to animal fur for dispersal. A single plant can produce thousands of seeds, each containing a chemical that ...

The way animals disperse seeds throughout landscapes ... the timeline begins with seed dispersal carried out mostly by small birds. As a young forest begins to age, a canopy takes shape and ...

Seed dispersal by animals is particularly important ... pulp to attract fruit-eating animals or hooks to stick on to animal fur,” Fricke wrote in a statement to PopSci. The research team ...

“I’d say every little bit helps.” We know, he adds, that long-distance dispersal is possible via seeds attached to the fur of animals, and that this can enable genetic diversity in plant ...