Explosive fruits and caterpillars

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Video published by BBC Earth

In this BBC Earth video, we see how difficult it is for some caterpillars that feed exclusively on a very special fruit, whose seed head explodes and is ejected very far away so it can grow far from the original plant.

The caterpillars trigger this explosion by eating what surrounds the seed.

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