In mountain conifer forests you can often see streams of cones flowing down the hill like water in ultra-slow motion, pooling in lakespic.twitter.com/l47jP0ljfS
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Seems like there’s a huge selective advantage to being high up on the mountain, in terms of seed dispersal
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If you can contract with one squirrel or corvid to carry seeds high up the mountain you’re just squirting out seeds to the world forever
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Thinks are tough at the top tho, all the wind and erosion and probably more temperature fluctuations
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it’s amazing how fast you go from the top where only two-inch-high plants grow to giants that don’t even notice you
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