So, it's more interesting than this. The trees are playing the squirrels. There's a normal amount of acorns that can support a normal amount of squirrels. But once every few years, the trees make a bunch more acorns. More than the normal amount of squirrels can eat. But not frequent enough that the number of squirrels increase. So the squirrels go crazy and hide em everywhere that year, but there's no way they can eat them all, so there are a bunch of acorns planted.
Tldr: trees manipulate # of acorns to get squirrels to plant more.
Bruh, I know the difference, and you know the difference, but the person I shamelessly stole this meme from doesn’t. Please file your concerns with them.
I interpreted it to be from the squirrel’s perspective. Let alone miraculously knowing what an acorn and a tree are called, how do you expect a squirrel to know it’s an Oak tree?
? I planted an oak tree when I was 6, it’s now over 40ft tall, and is currently dropping more acorns than the squirrels can handle. I’m 37 now for reference.
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