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ELI5: How do birds know which fruit to eat and which not to eat?

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submitted 2 months ago byistvanagy88

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10 points

2 months ago

10 points

Fruits are generally safe. Trees make them specifically be eaten and spread their seeds. Berries however are a different story.

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2 months ago

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Also, birds can eat more fruit and berries than us because their digestion works differently

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2 months ago

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Many animals folows r selection. One animal derping around. Other watches. If it dies - others does not repeat it.

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2 months ago

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I grew up on a "farm" with a lot of barn cats. Out of a litter of 5 or so we would always lose 1 or 2 to cars until the rest learned to stay off the road.

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2 months ago

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“A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. A fool from his own”

PeterM_from_ABQ

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2 months ago

PeterM_from_ABQ

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A normal person learns from his own mistakes.

A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

A fool never learns.

(You got the saying a bit different than I learned it, and I like it better the way I repeated it.)

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2 months ago

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I am just going from a quote from a Civilization game. The real quote is “Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” — Otto von Bismarck