Many of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.

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- Oceanic dispersal: A type of biological dispersal where terrestrial animals transfer from one land mass to another via a sea crossing.
- Rafting event: Oceanic dispersal that happens via floating vegetation.
- Platyrrhini: The so-called “New World Monkeys” that descended from African simians that arrived in South America roughly 30-40 million years ago.
- South Equatorial Current: A current maintained by the trade winds that flows westward along the equator.

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