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Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture
To date, few reports have been published on the sensitivity of birds to sweet tastes. Therefore, in this study, the behavioral responses of White Leghorn chicks to the sweet taste of saccharin and the bitter taste of quinine were assessed. Three chicks were provided with a solution of 3.0 mM quinine...
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Japan Poultry Science Association
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6756502/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32055174 http://dx.doi.org/10.2141/jpsa.0170166 |
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author | Yoshida, Tatsuyuki Ito, Yuichi Furuta, Hiroki |
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description | To date, few reports have been published on the sensitivity of birds to sweet tastes. Therefore, in this study, the behavioral responses of White Leghorn chicks to the sweet taste of saccharin and the bitter taste of quinine were assessed. Three chicks were provided with a solution of 3.0 mM quinine and a mixture of 3.0 mM quinine mixed with 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, or 10.0 mM saccharin in a two-bottle choice test for 48 h. It was found that the chicks consumed more of the 0.5 mM saccharin/3.0 mM quinine mixture but significantly less of the 10.0 mM saccharin/3.0 mM quinine mixtures than the quinine solution alone (P<0.05). The aversive behavior of 3.0 mM quinine solution was eased when mixed with 0.5 mM saccharin, indicating that chicks are detecting the sweetness associated with the 0.5 mM saccharin. The aversion to the 1.0 and 10.0 mM saccharin solutions might be stronger than to the 3.0 mM quinine solution alone. These findings suggest that chicks are able to detect this artificial sweetener. |
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spelling | pubmed-67565022020-02-13 Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture Yoshida, Tatsuyuki Ito, Yuichi Furuta, Hiroki J Poult Sci Original Papers To date, few reports have been published on the sensitivity of birds to sweet tastes. Therefore, in this study, the behavioral responses of White Leghorn chicks to the sweet taste of saccharin and the bitter taste of quinine were assessed. Three chicks were provided with a solution of 3.0 mM quinine and a mixture of 3.0 mM quinine mixed with 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, or 10.0 mM saccharin in a two-bottle choice test for 48 h. It was found that the chicks consumed more of the 0.5 mM saccharin/3.0 mM quinine mixture but significantly less of the 10.0 mM saccharin/3.0 mM quinine mixtures than the quinine solution alone (P<0.05). The aversive behavior of 3.0 mM quinine solution was eased when mixed with 0.5 mM saccharin, indicating that chicks are detecting the sweetness associated with the 0.5 mM saccharin. The aversion to the 1.0 and 10.0 mM saccharin solutions might be stronger than to the 3.0 mM quinine solution alone. These findings suggest that chicks are able to detect this artificial sweetener. Japan Poultry Science Association 2018 2017-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6756502/ /pubmed/32055174 http://dx.doi.org/10.2141/jpsa.0170166 Text en 2018 by Japan Poultry Science Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The Journal of Poultry Science is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Papers Yoshida, Tatsuyuki Ito, Yuichi Furuta, Hiroki Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture |
title | Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture |
title_full | Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture |
title_fullStr | Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture |
title_full_unstemmed | Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture |
title_short | Behavioral Responses of Chicks to a Saccharin-Quinine Mixture |
title_sort | behavioral responses of chicks to a saccharin-quinine mixture |
topic | Original Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6756502/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32055174 http://dx.doi.org/10.2141/jpsa.0170166 |
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