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Did you know? Elephants and marula berries Apr 11 2008
Elephants are notoriously destructive feeders, breaking off branches, debarking trees and even uprooting or pushing over whole trees. But they also play an important role in the life cycle of trees, by dropping seeds of their favourite trees in their dung as they move from place to place. Birds such as hornbills eat their favourite seeds off the ground, and so the distribution process continues.
Tags: bird, dung, eat, elephant, feed, fruit, hornbill, mammal, marula, savannah, seed, tree, vertebrateThe marula tree Jan 29 2008
This tree, Sclerocarya birrea, is found in Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Swaziland, amongst other African countries. It bears small, round fruit, yellow when ripe and green when unripe, which can be harvested from January to March.
There are countless myths and legends about this tree.
Tags: africa, bark, colour, crop, elephant, fertility, fruit, goat, leaf, malaria, marula, medicine, myth, namibia, pestle and mortar, plant, relish, sotho, south africa, swaziland, venda, wood, worm, wound, zimbabwe, zuluPage 1 of 1 pages
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