• @raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.org
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    221 year ago

    Still a good joke as we’re mammals, but peppers’s spice is so that birds, and not mammals, eat their seeds and poop them out far away as birds aren’t bothered by capsaicin.

    • @Ferris@infosec.pub
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      101 year ago

      lending purpose to an evolutionary trait is a mistake. It is possibly that mechanism by which they attained some degree of success, but evolution doesn’t ‘think’ unless youre into predeterminism like that.

    • @Dasnap@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Birds going to their local Mexican and complaining that the ‘Anus Scorcher Tacos’ are too bland