Can birds taste things? For years, people have thought that birds depend less on their sense of taste than people do. It turns out birds are more complicated creatures than that.
Savor the Flavour
The European starling (brought over to North America from England) has a phenomenal sense of taste. They can taste salt, sugar, tannins and even citric acid. They can even make a distinction between table sugar and other kinds of sugars – a helpful ability considering they can’t digest table sugar easily.
In Poor Taste
Unfortunately not all birds have a good sense of taste. Penguins, for instance...[READ MORE]
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