Rainforest tree defences
This tree is soft centred, and there is a theory that the enormous thorns that cover it evolved as defence against (now extinct) giant ground sloths, which would have pushed it over to eat it's centre.
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Location: Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Photo credit: © Evan Bowen-Jones / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: adaption, defences, evolutionary, extinct, family, jungle, papaya, pressure, protection, rainforest, sloth, spine, spines, spiny, system, thorny, tree, vegetation
