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Red panda has the ability to feel the sweet taste of artificial sweeteners like aspartame. This was revealed in a variety of native species research Himalayas.Not all animals can feel the sweet, for example, this occurs in cats, both wild and domesticated. Their sense of taste can not taste sweet.The absence of this capability due to damage to one gene that encodes a sweet taste receptors on the tongue to the animals, so that was launched by Live Science,"The system senses of taste in every species and individuals is very unique in the world, divided into several parts of the structure of the receptor senses of taste," says Joseph Brand of the Monell Senses Center, Philadelphia.

Brand and his research team tested the senses of taste of all six species belonging to the species of carnivores. The six species analyzed was taken from two different zoos in Switzerland including the red panda, civet, Genet, meerkat, mink, and lion.Then they give the six species of the six natural and artificial sweeteners. Each animal is given the opportunity to taste sweet and drink water within 24 hours. They were allowed to choose what they want to taste.As has been previously estimated lions, and cats did not taste the sweeteners offered. While other animals just tasting natural sweetener.Surprisingly, drinking red panda species artificial sweetener aspartame, neotame and sucralose in large numbers.DNA analysis showed that six species of red panda has a sense of structure unique sweet taste receptors.