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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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Also humans, including myself: willingly eats food containing high amounts of capsaicin, something chillies evolved to produce to prevent animals from eating them
We are a weird species.
Not all animals. Mammals (spicy, ow) and insects (insecticide). Birds are unaffected and are the pepper's preferred "conveyance method" for their seeds. It's neat!
Plants, like frat boys, are just trying to plant seeds far and wide. Birds help with that, in the plants case.
Yes, but I did read that the leading theory is that the seeds are too fragile for chewing, which is a mostly mammalian thing.