accidentally discovered that while this cat doesn't care for most fruit, dried apricots are apparently the tastiest cat snack ever. i haven't seen her that excited about *meat*. this is apparently A Thinghttps://thecatsite.com/threads/apricot-eating-cat.110984/ …
"A functional sweet-taste receptor heteromer cannot form, and thus the cat lacks the receptor likely necessary for detection of sweet stimuli. This molecular change was very likely an important event in the evolution of the cat's carnivorous behavior." dunno they're fine i think
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hard to imagine what dried apricots would taste like without the sweetness
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if you *really* wanted you could probably find a human with a knockout of this gene and ask them
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