Drinking and flying: Does alcohol consumption affect the flight and echolocation performance of phyllostomid bats?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Orbach, Dara N ^a   Veselka, Nina ^a   Dzal, Yvonne ^b   Lazure, Louis ^a   Fenton, M Brock ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; WATER; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; ARTIBEUS LITURATUS; ARTIBEUS PHAEOTIS; ARTICLE; BAT; CAROLLIA SOWELLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT; FLYING; GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; INGESTION; NONHUMAN; STURNIRA LILIUM; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALIA; ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; CAROLLIA SOWELLI; CHIROPTERA; GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; STURNIRA LILIUM;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77749252894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008993     Document Type: Article

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