Comment on World travelers
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Coconuts have evolved to spread from island to island by floating, but it’s still weird that one happened to float to the other side of the world in historic times. I would have guessed that either the currents could never take a coconut there or that the currents would have taken a coconut there long ago.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Y’know… I’d have found all this “coconuts floated from Asia to the Caribbean” stuff pretty far fetched…
But not two years ago I was fishing, and a goddamn coconut floated right down and bumped me in the leg.
In the Monongahela River.
In Pittsburgh.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Floating upstream - what a coconut!
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mysterious ways, I tells ya!
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m picturing it jump up rapids like a salmon.