June 17, 2009
How parrots eat red chili pepper without heating their tongue ?
An average human will find it difficult to chew red chilli pepper due to heating or burning of tongue. But parrots eat chillies normally like other food stuff ;and what is more they are particularly fond of red chillies i,.e the hotter ones ?
Any scientific reason ?
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Comments on How parrots eat red chili pepper without heating their tongue ?
Birds can't taste the capsaicin that makes chilies hot. The pepper plants originally developed this as a natural defense against mammals that might eat them, because the chili pepper seeds would not survive a trip through the mammalian digestive tract, but they can apparently survive a bird's. It's just another yummy fruit to them.
The parrots may favor the red chilies because they are more eye-catching than other colored peppers, the red color can also indicate ripeness, and ripe fruit has a higher sugar content (sweeter) than unripe fruit.
My Umbrella eats the seeds out of the chilli??