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  • Title: Food and water intake and weight regulation in the pigeon.
    Author: Zeigler HP, Green HL, Siegel J.
    Journal: Physiol Behav; 1972 Jan; 8(1):127-34. PubMed ID: 4665322.
    Abstract:
    The interaction of eating and drinking and the relation between intake and body weight was examined in pigeons maintained under laboratory conditions in order to obtain normative data on intake and weight regulation in this species. Under ad lib conditions food and water intake values are correlated, while deprivation of either nutrient leads to a reduction in the intake of the other. A linear relation between the log food intake and the log body weight was found under both ad lib and deprivation conditions. Following a period of food deprivation the pigeon shows both a short-term and a long-term compensatory increase in food intake whose magnitude is directly proportional to the degree of body weight loss produced by deprivation. The findings for the pigeon are similar in many respects to those reported for the rat and are discussed in relation to weight regulation and motivational mechanisms in hunger and thirst.
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