Comment

In a more general way, other creatures don’t experience taste the same way we do.

Bird poop is really nutritious to seeds. It makes sense for those plants to be eaten by birds (with the seed passing through the digestive tract untouched), but avoid other creatures.

Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.

source

Sort:hotnew top

CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Image

source
- Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Looking at that pepper while this musical sting plays
  
  source
piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.

I know someone with a dog that loves jalapenos. So its not just us.

source
- I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  A friend of mine has a dog who likes to chew on large landscaping rocks. The vet said to put hot sauce on the ones in the yard. Dog was like “OMG, you SEASONED them for ME???” cromch cromch cromch
  
  source
smeg@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Also birds fly, meaning they tend to disperse the seeds further

source
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Tree Shrews also seem to enjoy it. Though they have a genetic mutation that makes them less sensitive to capcasin.

source