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Bud Frosty said:
Birds process seeds too well to survive the trip through their digestive system. But farmers have been doin this for a long time with cows and clover seeds. So if you feed the neighbors cow...?
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we already looked at the possibilty
but the test on mallard ducks says that they can eat seeds and shit them out
same thing as wen you take a shit and you see corn food doesnt always get digested
 
The capacity of seeds to germinate after ingestion by frugivores is important for the population dynamics of some plant species and significant for the evolution of plant-frugivore interactions. In this paper the effects of different vertebrates on seed germination of nearly 200 plant species are reviewed, searching for patterns that predict the circumstances in which germination of seeds is enhanced, inhibited, or unaffected by the passage through the digestive tract of a seed disperser. It was found that seed dispersers commonly have an effect on the germinability of seeds, or on the rate of germination, or both, in about 50% of the plants they consume, although the diversity of animal species tested so far is still rather low (42 bird species, 28 non-flying mammals, 10–15 bats, 12 reptiles, 2 fishes). Enhancement of germination occurred about twice as often as inhibition.
from this site http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=92b34a2ffb38a20569a13c09893b2715
 
MediMaryUser said:
The capacity of seeds to germinate after ingestion by frugivores is important for the population dynamics of some plant species and significant for the evolution of plant-frugivore interactions. In this paper the effects of different vertebrates on seed germination of nearly 200 plant species are reviewed, searching for patterns that predict the circumstances in which germination of seeds is enhanced, inhibited, or unaffected by the passage through the digestive tract of a seed disperser. It was found that seed dispersers commonly have an effect on the germinability of seeds, or on the rate of germination, or both, in about 50% of the plants they consume, although the diversity of animal species tested so far is still rather low (42 bird species, 28 non-flying mammals, 10–15 bats, 12 reptiles, 2 fishes). Enhancement of germination occurred about twice as often as inhibition.
from this site http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=92b34a2ffb38a20569a13c09893b2715
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i saw this on animal planet about how the rainforest is fixing itself because of animals that eat the tree seeds and poo them out sumwhere
 
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