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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Crocodile who wrote (34029)8/5/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
"I was more amazed by the parrots that ate that clay that prevents them from being poisoned or sickened by some kind of berries... Wonder how they figured that one out --- "

The parrots probably started eating the berries and died. Wrong parrots. Another bunch of parrots who liked to eat the (mineralized, salty clay) then ate the berries that the wrong parrots weren't around to eat. They lived because the minerals neutralized the toxins in the berries (Stupid berries didn't understand they had to be eaten and excreted by living birds to spread).

It's called natural selection.

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