| Title |
Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0008993 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dara N. Orbach, Nina Veselka, Yvonne Dzal, Louis Lazure, M. Brock Fenton |
| Abstract |
In the wild, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats often eat fermenting fruits and nectar, and thus may consume levels of ethanol that could induce inebriation. To understand if consumption of ethanol by bats alters their access to food and general survival requires examination of behavioural responses to its ingestion, as well as assessment of interspecific variation in those responses. We predicted that bats fed ethanol would show impaired flight and echolocation behaviour compared to bats fed control sugar water, and that there would be behavioural differences among species. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 13% |
| Australia | 3 | 6% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| Germany | 2 | 4% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 19 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 40 | 83% |
| Scientists | 8 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 7 | 4% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 153 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 32 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 35 | 20% |
| Unknown | 15 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 110 | 64% |
| Environmental Science | 18 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 4% |
| Psychology | 3 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 13 | 8% |
| Unknown | 17 | 10% |