Wild fruits with higher alcohol content found to be more widely dispersed by mammals

A team of researchers from the University of Calgary, Área de Conservación Guanacaste, the University of Exeter and the College of Central Florida has found that wild fruits in Costa Rica with higher alcohol content tend to be spread more widely by mammals than fruits with less alcohol. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group collected and tested fruit produced in a tropical forest for alcohol content and documented their dispersal.


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