Comment on World travelers
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Floating upstream - what a coconut!
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mysterious ways, I tells ya!
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m picturing it jump up rapids like a salmon.