At 14:36 1999-11-22 -0500, Todd wrote:

>
>I doubt that even animals
>in the wild are infallible in their food choices.  That is, I
>don't doubt that wild animals can and do eat things that make
>them sick.

Rats have a method for determining if a food is inedible. If one of
them gets sick or dies, the others smell in its mouth to learn what
it has eaten, and then avoids that food at that place.

- Hans