Joe shrugged noncommittally.
I sighed, deciding I could put off that decision for now. "We'll start with lesser animals. But what about the animals on Ri Ja that already eat the sap when they can? What's their behavior like. You said they only get it when it leaks naturally from damage to the tree, so most of the time they eat other things, right? Is their behavior twisted somehow, or do they seem to just treat it like a lucky break then go about their business as usual when its gone?"
"An interesting point," Joe conceded, "They don't seem to be making any serious effort to acquire the Ceiba sap when it isn't present. They don't hang around the tree line just waiting for it. If they smell it, they try to go get it, but once it's gone, they don't seem to act any different than one would expect. On the other hand, they get it rarely, and they don't have the intelligence to gather it from undamaged trees."
