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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?
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2 .Plants can't choose where their seeds end up.
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3 .Some float on the wind, others on the water.
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4 .Many seeds hitch a ride on, or inside animals.
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5 .And the farther a seed gets from its parent, and any predators or disease the parent might have, the better its chance of survival.
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6 .Or so the theory goes.
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7 .Researchers studied that phenomenon in the South American chili pepper Capsicum chacoense,
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8 .which relies on birds like flycatchers to spread its seed.
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9 .To get realistic samples, researchers plucked chili seeds from the droppings of captive flycatchers.
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10 .Then they scattered them near and far from wild chili bushes in Bolivia.
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11 .Contrary to the prevailing theory, distant seeds fared no better than seeds directly beneath chili plants.
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12 .But it turns out the trip through the birds gave seeds a different competitive edge.
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13 .The passage stripped them of predator-attracting chemicals and pathogenic fungi,
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14 .which quadrupled the seeds' survival rate, compared to their undigested counterparts.
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15 .The results appear in the journal Ecology Letters.
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16 .So even though these chili seeds don't need to go the distance to survive,
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17 .you might say that a seed in the bird is worth about four on the bush.
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18 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
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