From danielrr@retemail.es Sat Aug 19 08:47:43 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA29056 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:47:42 -0700 Received: from smtp2.alehop.com ([62.81.160.68]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA12280 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:47:40 -0700 Received: from [62.82.254.160] ([62.82.254.160]) by smtp2.alehop.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id FZJQJF00.V1J for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:47:39 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: idd00i7w@62.81.31.3 Message-Id: Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:53:48 +0200 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ria=F1o?= Subject: Pax Pirum Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Animal behaviour could bear an independent witness on the question of whether modern fruits are less tasty and sweet than they used to be. It seems that some chimpanzees in the zoological park of Madrid have spontaneously started to make their own macedonias (or rather puree) mixing fruit and vegetables to make the result taste different, probably due to the insipid taste of modern fruits :-) A resume of the investigations on this behaviour (deserving a place on any de sollertia animalium book) will appear in a forthcoming issue of New Scientist. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Ria=F1o Rufilanchas Madrid, Espa=F1a .