Development of an ethanol model using social insects: III. Preferences for ethanol solutions
| Autor: | Julia E. Meyers, Andreja Kandolf, Charles I. Abramson, Darius Donohue, Audrey Sheridan, Janko Božič, Danny Benbassat |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Sucrose
Alcohol Drinking 050109 social psychology complex mixtures Choice Behavior Extinction Psychological chemistry.chemical_compound Honey Bees Animals 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Food science Palatability General Psychology Extinction Ethanol Dose-Response Relationship Drug Alcoholic Beverages fungi 05 social sciences 050301 education Bees Alcoholism chemistry Taste Models Animal behavior and behavior mechanisms Psychology 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0033-2941 |
| Popis: | Experiments are designed to assess whether free-flying honey bees have an aversion to an ethanol solution when given a choice between targets containing an ethanol solution in sucrose or sucrose only. Animals given a choice between a 1% ethanol solution and sucrose only show no aversion to the ethanol solution either in acquisition or extinction. Honey bees given a choice between a 5% ethanol solution and sucrose only show no differences in the initial choice of targets but some bees do switch over to the sucrose-only target. Performance during extinction indicates that bees landed on the previously reinforced sucrose-only target more than the target previously containing the 5% ethanol solution. An experiment in which bees were given a single 5% ethanol target showed that of 20 bees, 11 returned for the entire 12 trials of the experiment. All bees returned at least 6 times to the 5% ethanol target. Additional experiments were run on harnessed foragers in a palatability study of alcoholic beverages consumed by humans. The results of the palatability experiment indicate that in general, bees prefer more sweet drinks with less alcohol. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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