Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Straight into my piña colada
Oh no, maybe they were carried by a bird? (Apologies, I don’t remember the exact line)
Suppose they grasped it by the husk?
It’s not a matter of where it grips it, it’s a matter of weight ratios.
A 5 ounce bird can not carry a one pound coconut.
and carried by swallows ofc
African or European swallows?
I don’t know. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagg!
african definitively
But of course, African swallows are non-migratory…
Like catnip for nerds
I sensed the joke from a few instances over.
Or gorillas with coconut-based weaponry that fires in spurts
Coconuts were introduced to the Caribbean region by humans. They didn’t just float there.
Great, now I don’t know what to believe
Thanks, you’re a real one
They were actually carried by birds. See this documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_9kDO3q0w&t=44 /s
You always believe the latest thing presented to you, no matter how ridiculous. It was obviously the very same time travelers who masquerade as pyramid building aliens, whom are also responsible for Winnipeg, the Harlem shake, and the noble platypus. Getting all willy nilly with the coconuts, fuckin degens.
According to wikipedia this is the less likely and imo less interesting explanation. They did find coconuts that are genetically distinct from the ones the Spanish brought over from the Philippines, but those ones are more distantly related to the ones in polynesia so they probably didn’t float over. Instead they are more likely evidence of pre-columbian contact of Polynesians with south and central America, along with sweet potatoes originating in South America but being present in polynesia and SEA prior to columbus.
So this would boot Columbus off the podium in people who discovered America.
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Bering strait people / native American ancestors
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Polynesian people
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Vikings, Leif Erickson
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Columbus
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if they floated over then they’re definitely way older than 500 years.
prob just 500 years because that’s when mayo sources go back
Yeah. It’s pretty hard to believe they just “floated” over considering sweet potatos mde it to the Philippines from south America. Clearly those didn’t float over. Someone else posted a scientific article providing evidence that humans brought the coconut to the Americas
This is nonsense. Coconuts were spread by humans.
Such an origin indicates that the coconuts were not introduced naturally, such as by sea currents. The researchers concluded that it was brought by early Austronesian sailors to the Americas from at least 2,250 BP, and may be proof of pre-Columbian contact between Austronesian cultures and South American cultures.
What a lazy trope.
