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maahey, you told the story so much more thoroughly than did David Attenborough. He simply noted that the white oak acorn would germinate almost immediately and that the squirrels simply ate them right away--an after-effect of millions of years of squirrel experience. [tsuwm, what is the adjective for 'squirrel'?]
But the red oak acorns wouldn't germinate till spring, thereby storing away for a long period of time.
He also noted that in bumper crop years--those in which we see a flood of white oak acorns--the squirrels, knowing a good thing when they saw it, would actually bite off the germinating end of the white oak acorns and store them along with the red oak acorns, all the while eating the bounty of white oak acorns, too.
I am frigging amazed by all of this.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted addle wwh 10/21/03 08:05 PM Re: addle wwh 10/23/03 11:04 PM Re: addle Wordwind 10/23/03 11:35 PM Re: acorns wwh 10/24/03 12:57 AM Re: acorns maahey 10/24/03 02:16 AM Re: acorns Wordwind 10/24/03 11:35 PM Re: acorns wwh 10/25/03 12:50 AM Re: acorns Bingley 10/25/03 06:16 AM Re: acorns tsuwm 10/28/03 04:09 PM Re: acorns Wordwind 10/28/03 05:24 PM
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