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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Please do not disturb the migratory fruits

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So the coconuts migrated, but the majority population of many of the islands were taken there as cargo?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Oof, good point

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They could grip it by the husk

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm gonna cast doubt on this. It happened too conveniently after people figured out long distance sea travel.

If they would have floated it's much more likely that it happened somewhere in the last million years rather than the last 500.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yes, it is wrong. It was the result of the sea migrations of the Astronesians

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This is nuts!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Coconuts: the world's strangest migratory mammal

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Not accurate. They were taken by Astronesians during their seaborne migrations.

Read more here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

So, aliens did it. I knew it.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It also plays a central role in the Coconut Religion founded in 1963 in Vietnam.

follows the Coconut Religion link

The Coconut Religion was founded in 1963 by Vietnamese mystic and scholar Nguyễn Thành Nam,[1] also known as the Coconut Monk,[2][3] His Coconutship,[4] Prophet of Concord,[4] and Uncle Hai[4] (1909 – 1990[5]).

Oh, come the fuck on, now

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coconutship

Definitely a sex cult.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Repressed memory unlocked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please, no! Coconuts don't fit up there!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Not with that kind of attitude.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I was wondering how the heck coconuts journeyed around the southern passages for what would have been probably years on ocean currents and arrive in the caribbean still viable for growth.

Or carried by a sparrow.

Not really gonna happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

A swallow could grip it by the husk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They took the Panama Canal, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that an African or a European sparrow?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neither, it's a Swallow. Still unclear if it's African or European though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Read more here

Lol, I need to start doing that

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