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36     wind to animal dispersal
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Selection then modifies the fluffy tips of the fruits into small barbed spears nicely positioned to penetrate fur (and even skin) and be carried by a passing mammal. This Bidens (Asteraceae) almost undoubtedly had a fluffy wind-dispersed fruit in its ancestry.
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