"Lamoureaux, Shona" wrote: > Fellow Chileheads, > > has an article about a mouse that has been genetically modified to not have > the capsaicin receptor; it "no longer avoids the spicy Habanero pepper". I don't know about that but a few years back I lost quite a few chiles to rats....includeing habs.. so unless they're escaped from some weird genetic experiments from UCD (University of CA Davis) ;-) I figure if any mammal is hungry enough they'll eat chiles. Coyote Howlin' for Habaneros