• JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Also, we can and do eat some mild poisons because they’re tasty somehow.

    I have a love of chocolate, but smaller animals can’t eat as much without severe metabolic issues that might kill them.

    And capsaicin is straight-up an anti-mammal deterrent. Birds might be able to eat it with no reaction at all. Meanwhile humans just deal with their temperature receptors being freaking hacked for seemingly no other reason than fun.