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Old 12-14-2008, 07:23 PM
MicahEspudo MicahEspudo is offline
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Originally Posted by Zoe's Mom View Post
Humans have around 9,000 taste buds where parrots have only 300-400. Birds do have a sense of taste, and do show definite taste preferences, as we all know!
But then again they also have smaller mouths... so maybe it evens out on a ratio of mouth space to amount of taste buds?
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