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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C85B53.F9803000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been told that adding pepper to the bird seed will keep the = squirrels away, but not harm the birds. The pepper, according to the = note I got, won't hurt either the birds or the squirrels...but the = squirrels choose to find another source of food that isn't so spicy. I looked up a site on the net. http://www.squirrelproof.ca/index.html = It talked about an ingredient in chili peppers. "Capsaicin is the natural, organic active ingredient in chili peppers = that gives them their "hot" taste. Mammals have special neural receptors = (similar to taste buds) for capsaicin and therefore, experience the = "heat." Birds either lack these receptors or have receptors that are = insensitive to capsaicin. Most botanists and ornithologists believe that = chili peppers evolved this way so that small mammals would avoid the hot = taste, while birds freely eat the pungent pepper pod. This = adaptation/coevolution would result in wide ranging dispersal of the = undigested seed to ensure the natural propagation and long term survival = of the chili pepper plant." Does anyone know if the pepper you'd use at the dinner table has the = same effect as capsaicin is alleged to have? Has anyone tried using = capsaicin? Does it work? Andy Moir Freeport=20 ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C85B53.F9803000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I've been told that adding pepper to = the bird seed=20 will keep the squirrels away, but not harm the birds. The pepper,=20 according to the note I got, won't hurt either the birds or the = squirrels...but=20 the squirrels choose to find another source of food that isn't so=20 spicy.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I looked up a site on the net. <A=20 href=3D"http://www.squirrelproof.ca/index.html">http://www.squirrelproof.= ca/index.html</A> =20 It talked about an ingredient in chili peppers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <P class=3Dtext>"Capsaicin is the natural, organic active ingredient in = chili=20 peppers that gives them their "hot" taste. Mammals have special neural = receptors=20 (similar to taste buds) for capsaicin and therefore, experience the = "heat."=20 Birds either lack these receptors or have receptors that are insensitive = to=20 capsaicin. Most botanists and ornithologists believe that chili peppers = evolved=20 this way so that small mammals would avoid the hot taste, while birds = freely eat=20 the pungent pepper pod. This adaptation/coevolution would result in wide = ranging=20 dispersal of the undigested seed to ensure the natural propagation and = long term=20 survival of the chili pepper plant."</P> <P class=3Dtext><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </P> <P class=3Dtext>Does anyone know if the pepper you'd use at the dinner = table has=20 the same effect as capsaicin is alleged to have? Has anyone tried = using=20 capsaicin? Does it work?</P> <P class=3Dtext>Andy Moir</P> <P class=3Dtext>Freeport </P></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C85B53.F9803000--
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