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Black palm (Astrocaryum standleyanum) and the Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)

6/2/2018

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The black palm is one nasty tree should you wish to try and climb one.  But up there at the top are some very important fruits and many a person and animal have thought about how to get up there.  And just for the record, there are a couple of animals that can climb this tree and a couple that leap to the top from nearby trees so it can be done.  ​
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So, while some try to reach the fruit at the top, the Central American agouti sorta just hangs out around these trees and waits for the fruit to fall.  And by all accounts this is their favorite food and I often see them under these palms.

​The kinda interesting part of all this is that the agouti is a scatter hoarder.  So like a squirrel might bury an acorn the agouti bury the palm fruits.  And then, they dig them up and move them and bury them again.  And again.  And then the neighboring agouti might come along and dig them up, steal them and re-bury them somewhere else.  This can honestly go on a couple dozen times before they are eaten.  But with the fruit only ripening for about 4 months of the year, they need those buried seeds to get them through.  So the tree feeds the agouti and the agouti disperses the seeds for the tree.  This is known as mutualism.

​And finally, my blog software is not working well at all right now so sadly I am going to have to put the photo of the agouti as a separate posting.
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Leonard Ignatowski
7/21/2024 08:56:25 am

I am requesting approval to use this photo of Black Palm for my book. I attended Jungle School in the Canal Zone prior to my Vietnam War service. The photograph will be used in my Vietnam War journal book. Our platoon had many painful encounters with the Black Palm.

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Keith Christenson
7/22/2024 05:31:16 am

The photo here is a size-reduced version of the actual photograph and may not reproduce well in a print book format. I thank you for your service the US, and thank you for asking permission to use the photo. You may use the photo, with no fees or licenses needed, for your book. If your editor needs me to sign something to release the photo I will be happy to do so, but consider this as an agreement that you may use the photo in your book with no payment needed.

I am away from home currently, so can't put up a larger copy of the image, but if the image is too small to work with I can provide the full image at full size later.

Best,

Keith

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