A space tourist from a galaxy far, far away landed their gleaming silver spaceship on a peculiar blue-green planet. They stepped out, eager to explore, when they noticed a small, furry creature with large, expressive eyes staring up at them. The tourist, having studied intergalactic customs, offered a universal peace offering: a shiny, edible nutrient cube.
The creature sniffed it, then promptly buried it in the dirt. Puzzled, the tourist offered another, then another, each met with the same enthusiastic burial. This continued for quite some time, the tourist growing increasingly confused, until finally, they ran out of nutrient cubes.
Just then, another space tourist, this one from an even more distant quadrant, landed nearby. Seeing the first tourist’s bewildered expression and the mound of buried cubes, the second tourist sighed and shook their head.
“You really don’t get it, do you?” they said. “That’s not a creature from this planet. That’s a galactic gardener, and you’ve just helped them plant enough interdimensional vegetables to feed a small moon for the next century!”