Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for February 17, 2009

Real birds love peppers! http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1857/

So am I working too hard?

Well, yah learn somethin’ new every day…hopefully!

Birds are not sensitive to capsaicin. They don’t feel the hot in hot peppers.

It may be that birds aren’t really sensitive to hot peppers in real life - but cartoon birds have the same kind of tongues people do… I think.

definitely not the bluebird of happiness….

uh… just to let you know, but in reality, animals can’t talk…. whether they like peppers or not is a irrelevant mistake compared to whether they talk or not. Now do birds point wing feathers like fingers.

Actually, parrots, magpies and crows can talk. The tough part for them is trying to figure out what to say… ;)

yummy