• Knusper@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    It’s impossible to say. There’s certainly no guarantee for a cocoa-like plant to exist, so bats not existing as (initially badly adapted) pollinators could have certainly been their death sentence, depending on how everything else played out for them.

    It could have also just resulted in cocoa plants evolving very differently and ultimately not tasting like the cocoa we know today.