This was pretty much the exact thought process as I was eating an apple.
Eating, Eating, Eating.... got to the core...
Apparently those apple seeds contain enough cyanide to kill a small animal if they ate enough of them. Apples are confusing... They get all big and inviting saying come eat me and then they have little toxic capsules inside. Technically, as I learned in my biology class in high school, fruit are the swollen ovaries of the plant used to attract animals so that they will eat the fruit and eventually deposit, to put nicely, the seeds all fertilized in the soil so another plant can grow. So, if the goal is dispersion to extend the family tree, pun intended, then why are they trying to kill off the animals used in the process? I guess apple trees don't like small animals, just like I dislike small yappy dogs.
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