Humans and their Environments
Pleistocene anachronisms: the plants the megafauna left behind.
Lecture 36 September 2022
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1   the end

2   ground zero

3   introductory story - Crescentia

4   Crescentia alata

5   fruit fall

6   Crescenia fruit crop

7   the Crescentia fruit

8   rotting Crescentia

9   a solution?

10   a watery solution?

11   clues

12   closer inspection

13   the art of eating a jicaro fruit

14   horse-dispersed seeds

15   the bait

16   scarification?

17   Pleistocene horses

18   ripple effects

19   a flower specialist

20   more ripple

21   horses eat more than jicaro

22   guacimo fruits

23   Guazuma ulmifolia fruits

24   apple cores

25   if no dispersers

26   ground sloths

27   ground sloths

28   really big ground sloths

29   glyptodonts

30   camels

31   gomphotheres

32   mammoths and mastodons

33   mastodon molars

34   and they were big

35   megafaunal predators

36   saber-toothed cats

37   the hunters

38   more hunters

39   old world hunters?

40   anachronism

41   mystery dung

42   megafaunal bird

43   Australia?

44   five places

45   not just fruit

46   opuntia cactus

47   tunas

48   jumping cholla

49   spines

50   after browsing

51  

52   what is natural?

53   snakes and lions

54   morning after

55   lunch?

56   maribou stork lunch

57   snakes and hyenas

58   mongooses

59   jackals

60   coyotes

61   snakes

62   lizards

63   big herbivorous

64   REALLY big

65   REALLY long ago

66   gingko

67   what did it eat?

68   New Zealand
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