Did you survive "avocado hand" summer?

[Otherbrother]

@chenille

Animals presumably wouldn’t because the seeds are toxic. Actually the pulp has some toxins too, enough to be dangerous to smaller animals, and they should be kept away from pets. Which was part of the argument they might have been built to be dispersed by megafauna instead – not necessarily sloths, the 2000 book also suggested things like gomphotheres but they happen to be less famous – along with a general lack of modern dispersers besides humans.

I don’t know about sloths but the black bears in my neighborhood are well known for their fondness for avocados. It’s extremely common to see them eating them around here: