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| | Wonders Nature 2 |
 | | Stanley Temple, an American biologist working in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, noticed in 1970 that the seeds of the Calvaria major tree, although fertile, had not germinated for 300 years (the age of the youngest specimens still growing). |
 | | Noting that the large, wingless bird, the dodo, became extinct about that time, Temple brought in some turkeys-in the hope that they could do what the Dodo probably had done: swallow the seeds, thereby removing their hard outer coat and enabling them to germinate. |
 | | Throughout that time, it has not eaten one of the ants in that nest, nor have they disturbed it during its nesting season (although they attack anything else that comes near their nest at that time, as well as at any other time). |
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