erikahammerschmidt:

I love how many plants have made their relationships with the animals that eat them into a pleasant symbiosis, like “ok you can have some leaves and fruit and nectar and whatever, in exchange you help me reproduce, okay?” but not acacia trees and giraffes. Oh no. Theirs is a relationship of chemical warfare and espionage and a bitter arms race which cannot end until one of the two species is utterly obliterated (sorry giraffes. it will be you, either way. one of you can live without the other, and you’re not the lucky one)