very enjoyable captures. what is this " palm tree date" - little palm fruits? it looked like an acorn to me. (I think you dont have oaks in S.Africa, do you?) are those fruits hard, or soft? anyway... amazing pictures. thanks for sharing.
very enjoyable captures. what is this " palm tree date" - little palm fruits? it looked like an acorn to me. (I think you dont have oaks in S.Africa, do you?) are those fruits hard, or soft? anyway... amazing pictures. thanks for sharing.
Yes, they are the palm fruits my friend.
We have thousands of oak trees here.
The palm fruits go soft when they ripen, but they have big pips inside the flesh.
A birds stomach acid cannot break the pip down, so they excrete the pip and many times the excreted pip grows into a new palm tree.
Such is the wisdom of nature my friend!
aha! understandable. I've watched in one BBC series dedicated to the world of plants, that there exiat a rhinoceros apples - a plant that produce seeds that will start growing only after rhuno will eat and defecate them. such a solid selectivity and perfection of the method!
Yeah, the seeds are prepared in their stomachs, the same thing also with birds and all other plant eating animals. Nature has her own gardeners!