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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: Here Pretty Bird! Heeeeere, Pretty Bird!
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <62133@mimsy.umd.edu> <50740027@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:31:54 GMT
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- billg@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Bill Gingras) writes:
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- >Do birds really have that highly developed a sense of taste? I mean,
- >after all, they do seem to hull seeds and eat them whole. I'd think
- >they'd be more discriminatory with texture than taste.
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- Yes birds have a quite good sense of taste.
- Wild birds don't just eat seed. They eat lots of different things.
- Only captive birds, with owners who don't know better, live on only seed.
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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