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Please do not disturb the migratory fruits

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I’m gonna cast doubt on this. It happened too conveniently after people figured out long distance sea travel.

If they would have floated it’s much more likely that it happened somewhere in the last million years rather than the last 500.

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Yes, it is wrong. It was the result of the sea migrations of the Astronesians

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35 million years of coconuts in Asia and they didn’t float over until after traders established shipping routes to Asia?

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Yes, but for human related reasons. Humans moved them around a lot in Africa and Asia - moving them from Southeast Asia to India and Madagascar is bound to have an impact on the currents they get caught up in.

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are you proposing some kind of Columbus effect where people heading to India will occasionally end up in Taino land by accident

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So thanks to humans more coconuts went for a swim?

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According to the first article that popped up in the search results the most likely theory is portugese traders brought them over from madagascar.

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Climate change confirmed.

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Do you’re telling me that it had nothing to do with swallows being either European or African?!

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It could grip it by the husk.

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It’s not a matter of where it grips it! It’s a matter of weight ratios!

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45 points

I’m so glad that this 50-year-old joke is still funny.

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A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.

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Depends. Does the coconut weigh more than a duck?

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Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?

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I don’t know, I wasn’t expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition.

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No one ever does

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But then of course, uh, African swallows are non-migratory.

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Not accurate. They were taken by Astronesians during their seaborne migrations.

Read more here

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It also plays a central role in the Coconut Religion founded in 1963 in Vietnam.

follows the Coconut Religion link

The Coconut Religion was founded in 1963 by Vietnamese mystic and scholar Nguyễn Thành Nam,[1] also known as the Coconut Monk,[2][3] His Coconutship,[4] Prophet of Concord,[4] and Uncle Hai[4] (1909 – 1990[5]).

Oh, come the fuck on, now

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Coconutship

Definitely a sex cult.

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9 points

Repressed memory unlocked.

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I was wondering how the heck coconuts journeyed around the southern passages for what would have been probably years on ocean currents and arrive in the caribbean still viable for growth.

Or carried by a sparrow.

Not really gonna happen.

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Is that an African or a European sparrow?

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Neither, it’s a Swallow. Still unclear if it’s African or European though

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They took the Panama Canal, obviously.

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A swallow could grip it by the husk

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Read more here

Lol, I need to start doing that

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