[CH] Hot birds

Andrew Healy (A.Healy@surrey.ac.uk)
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:31:02 +0100

This weeks New Scientist carries a story about a 'songbird whose plumage
and flesh.... containa super-hot chilli pepper taste [to deter predators]'.
 Has Jim been breeding a whole new variety of pepper ?  Is his middle name
Frankenfurter ?



"On the journey to enlightenment, it is far better to travel hopefully than
to arrive" - Confucius

"That which does not kill us, makes us strong !" - Nietzsche

Andrew Healy <chp2ah>