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| Whether learned or genetically programmed for it, Liomys salvini rejects totally a number of species of tree seeds in the ACG dry forest. One such seed is that of Lonchocarpus costaricensis (Fabaceae), whose seeds and wind-dispersed fruits are laid out above. The ruler is 15 cm long. It is commonplace for the leaf litter below a large Lonchocarpus costaricensis tree to be littered with these fruits in the later half of the (windy) dry season, with not a single one cut into to remove its large soft seed(s). There are six other species of Lonchocarpus in this same forested area, and the story is the same for all seven. | ||
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