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The acquisition and persistence of aversions towards flavoured foods associated with the administration of oxalic acid to sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2021

I Kyriazakis ,
D H Anderson  and
A J Duncan
I Kyriazakis
Affiliation:
Genetics and Behavioural Sciences Department, Scottish Agricultural College, West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3JG
D H Anderson
Affiliation:
Genetics and Behavioural Sciences Department, Scottish Agricultural College, West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3JG
A J Duncan
Affiliation:
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH
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It has been suggested that large herbivores learn to avoid potentially harmful plants/foods by developing conditioned food aversions (CFAs) towards food flavours associated with negative post-ingestive consequences (Provenza, 1995). This suggestion has been based mainly on experiments which have used LiCl as a ‘model’ aversive stimulus to demonstrate the development of learned CFAs in sheep. The overall objective of the experiment was to test whether sheep are able to form CFA toward a food flavour associated with the administration of an aversive stimulus which occurs naturally in food plants : oxalic acid, OA. Specific objectives were: (1) whether the rate and degree of formation of CFA are dependent on the dose rate of OA administered, and (2) whether the persistence of formed CFA depends on the previous dose rate of OA.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1998 , 1998 , pp. 94
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1998

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Kyriazakis, I., Papachristou, T.G. Duncan, A.J. and Gordon, I.J. (1997). Mild conditioned food aversions developed by sheep towards flavours associated with plant secondary compounds. Journal of Chemical Ecology 23: 727–746.10.1023/B:JOEC.0000006407.68081.26CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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