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Science 19 February 1971:
Vol. 171. no. 3972, pp. 699 - 701
DOI: 10.1126/science.171.3972.699
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Taste of Water in the Cat: Effects on Sucrose Preference

L. M. Bartoshuk 1, M. A. Harned 2, and L. H. Parks 2

1 John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory, 290 Congress Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06519
2 Pioneering Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Massachusetts 01760

Electrophysiological recordings show that water is not tasteless to cats. Also, unlike most mammals, cats appear indifferent to sucrose, but this may be because the taste of the sucrose is masked by the taste of the water in which it is dissolved. When the water taste is suppressed by the addition of small amounts of sodium chloride, cats take sucrose avidly.


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