Like many other fruit-eating birds on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the red-whiskered bulbul helps forest plants spread by dropping seeds from the plants’ fruits in different spots (a process called seed dispersal). Ecologists have found that fruit-eating birds disperse some seeds from native plants at risk of extinction in the wild, such as the lapalapa tree. However, the birds disperse a higher number of seeds from night-blooming jessamine shrubs and other non-native plants with large populations, likely because there are so many more of those plants for them to choose from. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that
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A
on Oahu, the rate of population increase is higher for non-native plants than it is for vulnerable native forest plants, like lapalapa trees.
B
night-blooming jessamine shrubs and other non-native forest plants only recently began to outnumber native forest plants in the wild.
C
on Oahu, native plants, such as the lapalapa tree, are already growing in most of the spots where red-whiskered bulbuls would be likely to drop plant seeds on Oahu.
D
the lapalapa tree and the night-blooming jessamine shrub are the plant species most in danger of going extinct in the wild.