NONE@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 month ago"Jokes on you, I'm into that shit"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1508arrow-down113
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minus-squareBallShapedMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down1·1 month agoI saw a video saying that this was so that birds would eat instead of mammals. Something about spreading out further.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 month agoYep! Only mammals have the nerve receptors to feel the heat. Herbivores grind the seeds up. Plants don’t want that. Birds, who can’t sense the heat, happily eat the pods and poop the seeds everywhere.
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoHas anyone checked for correlation between having a taste for capsaicin and not chewing your food thoroughly?
minus-squareSpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month agoShut up I just eat fast.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoi mean basically everyone these days doesn’t chew properly
I saw a video saying that this was so that birds would eat instead of mammals. Something about spreading out further.
Yep!
Only mammals have the nerve receptors to feel the heat.
Herbivores grind the seeds up. Plants don’t want that.
Birds, who can’t sense the heat, happily eat the pods and poop the seeds everywhere.
Has anyone checked for correlation between having a taste for capsaicin and not chewing your food thoroughly?
Shut up I just eat fast.
i mean basically everyone these days doesn’t chew properly