Pollination: Trading food for fertilization in 3 minutes

How do immobile plants have sex? The most important way, is by bribing animals to carry their pollen between plants of the same species. But different animal carriers have different needs and sensory systems, which plants respond to by providing different rewards and flower shapes. Dr. Mia Park explains how pollination works. See the video touring environmental film festivals.
A STEM video to help understand nature. Produced in a collaboration between Cornell University's Naturalist Outreach program, Park Productions, NYS 4H and Cornell Cooperative Extension, and NSF.