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But no seedlings. Day after day, no seedlings. Huh? So finally I get down on my knees and paw through the finely milled dung. No seeds. But seed coats, oh yes, lots of seed coats. All empty. Liomys obviously thought I was very nice to have, instead of burying the seeds and making them find them one by one, put them in nice little groups and put a great big flag on each one - called, at sundown, the oh so fresh odor of megafauna dung screaming exactly where to search for Enterolobium seeds. No fecal phobia in those rodents.
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