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Happy Faces Ballooning to Hawaii: Hawaii's Native Spiders

Challenge Question:
"How do birds bring new plant seeds to a place?"

Sometimes seeds with burs get stuck on birds' feathers. But the main way birds bring new seeds to an area is that they eat a small fruit in one place, fly away to someplace else, and when they poop, out comes the seed, ready to grow!

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