Jenday Conure parents as energetic as ever. 🧡
Jenday Conure chicks for reservation! 🐣💛
Watch our jenday conure happily munching on a chili pepper 🌶
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"There is an evolutionary explanation, as to why birds are impassive to capsaicin. When birds consume the fruits and seeds of chilli plants growing in the wild, they distribute the whole seeds in their droppings over a wide area. Mammals, chew their food more efficiently and the seeds would not survive their journey through the digestive tract. Therefore, it is in the plant’s best interest that its seeds be ingested by birds, not mammals, and the presence of a compound that irritates mammals, but not birds, greatly increases the chances of a fruit being ingested by a bird. Some varieties of chillies are even known as ‘bird peppers.’
Chillies also evolved their spiciness as a defence mechanism, to deter the destructive Fusarium fungus, especially virulent in wet climates, from feasting on the chilli’s flesh and seeds. In dryer areas, non-spicy chilli plants are far more common, as these fungal defences are less important. Instead, the plant puts its energy into being as water-efficient as possible, rather than producing heat, and possesses fewer pores on their leaves, minimising water vapour loss, helping them to thrive when water is scarce. As a result, these non-pungent chilli plants flourish in water-stressed conditions and produce twice the number of seeds, of pungent plants found in dry conditions."
-Pauline James, Parrots Magazine
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