A comparison of taste thresholds for sweet and astringent-tasting compounds in great apes;Une étude comparative des seuils gustatifs de substances sucrée et astringente chez les singes anthropoïdes

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 326, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 449-455

  Simmen, Bruno ^a   Charlot, Stéphanie ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Ecologie Generale   (France)

Author keywords

Frustose; Gorilla; Pan; Pongo; Tannic acid; Taste thresholds; Two bottle test

Indexed keywords

ASTRINGENT AGENT; FRUCTOSE; TANNIN;

PRIMATE; TASTE;

ADAPTATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHROPOIDEA; APE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GORILLA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY;

GORILLA GORILLA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0037589720     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0691(03)00122-7     Document Type: Article

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