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  • Cigarettes can be good for your health (if you're a bird)
     OP - December 05, 2012, 08:27 AM
    This is an odd one, but it makes perfect sense. I hope the birds in question don't have much sense of smell, or don't mind the smell of ashtrays. whistling2

    City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out parasites

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    Lining nests with material from discarded cigarettes may help keep out parasitic mites.

    Stuffing cigarette butts into the lining of nests may seem unwholesome. But a team of ecologists says that far from being unnatural, the use of smoked cigarettes by city birds may be an urban variation of an ancient adaptation.

    Birds have long been known to line their nests with vegetation rich in compounds that drive away parasites. Chemicals in tobacco leaves are known to repel arthropods such as parasitic mites, so Monserrat Suárez-Rodríguez, an ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, and her colleagues wondered whether city birds were using cigarette butts in the same way.

    In a study published today in Biology Letters1, the researchers examined the nests of two bird species common on the North American continent. They measured the amount of cellulose acetate (a component of cigarette butts) in the nests, and found that the more there was, the fewer parasitic mites the nest contained.

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    As well as having anti-parasite effects, Suárez-Rodríguez cautions there may be as-yet unknown negative effects for the birds, because many compounds in cigarette butts are known carcinogens, and some are pesticides.

    Interesting adaptive behaviour from our friends of the chirpy persuasion. Smiley
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  • Re: Cigarettes can be good for your health (if you're a bird)
     Reply #1 - December 05, 2012, 09:13 AM
    I dunno. Birds are always flying, so it seems like they'd get a bit winded smoking fags all the time.

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  • Re: Cigarettes can be good for your health (if you're a bird)
     Reply #2 - December 05, 2012, 10:04 PM
    I thought you were going with the colloquialism for "women". I won't lie, I got a bit excited for a moment, thinking that cigarettes weren't that bad for me after all. Grin
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  • Re: Cigarettes can be good for your health (if you're a bird)
     Reply #3 - December 05, 2012, 10:06 PM
    Oh shit no. I'd never be so politically incorrect as to call chicks "birds".
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  • Re: Cigarettes can be good for your health (if you're a bird)
     Reply #4 - December 05, 2012, 10:09 PM
    Wait, was that a joke? This is one of the few moments in which I can't tell if you're doing something funny or not.
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  • Re: Cigarettes can be good for your health (if you're a bird)
     Reply #5 - December 05, 2012, 10:18 PM
     Cheesy Yes, it was a joke. I thought the juxtaposition of colloquialisms made that clear. parrot
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  • Re: Cigarettes can be good for your health (if you're a bird)
     Reply #6 - December 05, 2012, 10:23 PM
    Nah, your highbrow humor is too much for me sometimes, Os.

    Right, I'm going to go out and have that cigarette now...
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