[ExI] capsaicin

[Anton Sherwood]

Spicy food was mentioned, and it happens that yesterday I watched a TV 
episode containing a line that went roughly "Let me guess, kung pao, hot 
enough to blind a tyrannosaur?"

and I have an urge to share with someone the observation that today's 
dinosaurs are not bothered by capsaicin (the payload of peppers), so why 
would a tyrannosaur be?

I learned this only recently: capsaicin deters mammals, not birds. 
Birds spread seeds farther.

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