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Polar bear eating a melon!
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Maybe
not the most natural food for polar bears.
Watermelon refers to
both fruit and plant of a vine-like (climber and trailer)
herb originally from southern Africa and one of the most
common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a
special type of fruit known by botanists as a pepo, which
has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp
and endocarp); pepos are derived from an inferior ovary
and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon
fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not
in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green
and yellow) and a juicy, sweet, usually red, but sometimes
orange, yellow, or pink interior flesh... |
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