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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 319661" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I wonder if Degus even can taste sweets? Cats lack the digestive pathways to handle most carbohydrates (sucrose, etc., completely), and they cannot taste sweet stuff at all.</p><p></p><p>It's another one of those weird things about animals, just like how BIRDS cannot taste capsiacin (the chemical in peppers that tastes hot to us and other mammals).</p><p></p><p>Not only are hot peppers added to bird feeds as a repellent to squirrels and the like, but some species of bird actually love hot peppers. The current guess is that they might taste sweet to them, but no one really knows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 319661, member: 1963"] I wonder if Degus even can taste sweets? Cats lack the digestive pathways to handle most carbohydrates (sucrose, etc., completely), and they cannot taste sweet stuff at all. It's another one of those weird things about animals, just like how BIRDS cannot taste capsiacin (the chemical in peppers that tastes hot to us and other mammals). Not only are hot peppers added to bird feeds as a repellent to squirrels and the like, but some species of bird actually love hot peppers. The current guess is that they might taste sweet to them, but no one really knows. [/QUOTE]
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