Birds may be able to eat peppers because they have so few taste buds: Chickens have just 24 taste buds, and pigeons have 37, says Anna Pidgeon, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at UW-Madison.
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Birds may be able to eat peppers because they have so few taste buds: Chickens have just 24 taste buds, and pigeons have 37, says Anna Pidgeon, an assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology at UW-Madison.