Tree shrews can tolerate hot peppers: Mutation in pain receptor makes peppery plant palatable Date: July 12, 2018 Source: PLOS Summary: Almost all mammals avoid eating chili peppers and other 'hot ...

Tree Shrews Love Hot Peppers Because They Don’t Feel the Burn A genetic mutation prevents Chinese tree shrews from feeling the heat of capsaicin, making them the only other mammal besides humans ...

The tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis)—a small mammal species native to southeast Asia that's closely related to primates—however, apparently has no such problems.

The tree shrews then appear to defecate as a way of marking their feeding territory. That suggests these supposedly "meat-eating" plants have evolved a mutualistic relationship with tree shrews. The ...

If tree shrews’ metabolism worked like humans’, they would reach or exceed the legal European driving limit of 0.05 percent blood alcohol content every third night,” Wiens says.

Tree shrews exist in their own taxonomic order, Scandentia, and that’s not their only unique attribute. According to a 2018 study, a genetic mutation lowers their sensitivity to capsaicin ...

Tree shrews grow to about 5 to 9 inches long, with tails about as long as their bodies, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.

LANSING, MI – A Michigan zoo is welcoming two new residents. Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced Wednesday that two northern tree shrew pups were born on Jan. 13. Their birth marks the first ...