Figure 2. The Amami rabbit Pentalagus furnessi consuming Balanophora yuwanensis (IMAGE)

Kobe University

Figure 2. The Amami rabbit Pentalagus furnessi consuming Balanophora yuwanensis

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The Amami rabbit consumed both dry fruits and vegetative tissue from B. yuwanensis. It serves as a dominant seed disperser for B. yuwanensis, incentivized not by the fruit but the vegetative tissue.

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Kenji Suetsugu and Hiromu Hashiwaki

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