Is There Something More Complex Going On?

Beavers may be managing the habitat, right? You liberate other trees that are struggling to get enough light by felling a big tree. And there's a whole conversation with the plant too and the chemical defenses that plants put out to avoid browsers. So we will, this audience, the dark horse audience will have heard Heather and me talk many times about secondary compounds. Their purpose is to interact with animals, usually to poison them so that they will move on and eat something else.

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