alt Hacker NewsPlants want to be eaten only by big animals that take them on long and random walks and then die far away from where they are picked up to fertilize the seed.
Plants want to be eaten only by big animals that take them on long and random walks and then die far away from where they are picked up to fertilize the seed.
Which also explains the talking Ameglian Major Cow on the menu at Milliways, in Douglas Adams' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: when you confuse evolutionary outcomes with intent, you end up with livestock enthusiastically volunteering for dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAF35dekiAY