Avocado seeds are so large only massive animals could eat... | funfact.wiki

Avocado seeds are so large only massive animals could eat and spread them. Until 10,000 years ago, mammoths and ground sloths did this, but after their extinction, avocados lost their dispersers. Had humans not cultivated them, avocados might have vanished.

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