The influence of ethanol on feeding in the frugivorous yellow-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 369-375

  Mazeh, Shunit ^a   Korine, Carmi ^a   Pinshow, Berry ^a   Dudley, Robert ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Fermentation; Food consumption; Fruit eating birds; Olfaction; Side bias; Yellow vented bulbul

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBOHYDRATE;

ARTIFICIAL DIET; CARBOHYDRATE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ETHANOL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERMENTATION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INGESTION RATE; METABOLISM; ODOR; SONGBIRD; YEAST;

ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUGIVORE; FRUIT; HANDEDNESS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; SMELLING; YELLOW VENTED BULBUL;

ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; APPETITE STIMULANTS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ETHANOL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERMENTATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; FRUIT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; PASSERIFORMES; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERIFORMES; PYCNONOTIDAE; PYCNONOTUS XANTHOPYGOS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 39449137516     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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