Unlearned appetite controls: watersnakes (Nerodia) take smaller meals when they have the choice.
Unlearned appetite controls: watersnakes (Nerodia) take smaller meals when they have the choice.
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未知的食欲控制:水蛇(Nerodia)在有选择的时候会吃少量的食物。
DOI:
10.1037/0735-7036.119.3.304
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
G. Burghardt
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文献类型:
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作者:
P. Andreadis;G. Burghardt
Studies of appetite in mammals emphasize that meal size is learned, but lactation and parental care constrain testing of naive individuals. Neonatal reptiles, in contrast, are self-sufficient foragers. The authors examined the effect of prey size on meal size in primivorous (at first feeding) northern watersnakes (Nerodia sipedon). When offered an excess of small prey (2%-20% of snake mass), neonates ate significantly smaller meals (M = 23.5% of snake mass) than when offered a single huge item (range = 32%-55%). The authors conclude that (a) the taking of smaller meals is not a learned effect, (b) there may be a satiety threshold for meal size rather than a target, (c) oropharyngeal stimuli may provide satiety cues, and (d) huge meals may have fitness costs.
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Swithers-Mulvey,SE;Hall,WG
通讯作者:
Hall,WG