Why Avocado Seeds Are so Ridiculously Large

Who swallows avocado seeds?

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Fruits are nature’s way of convincing animals to swallow seeds. The point of that is of course for the seeds to hitch a ride to places far away from the mother plant — places where seeds may eventually end up being deposited in a pile of nutrient-rich dung, germinate, and grow into a plant of their own, thereby claiming new land for their…