• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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.

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      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.

      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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        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

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      Also birds fly, meaning they tend to disperse the seeds further

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      Tree Shrews also seem to enjoy it. Though they have a genetic mutation that makes them less sensitive to capcasin.