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Science 5 September 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3897, pp. 1027 - 1028
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3897.1027
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Hyperphagia and Polydipsia in Socially Isolated Rhesus Monkeys

Robert E. Miller 1, I. Arthur Mirsky 1, William F. Caul 1, and Toshiie Sakata 1

1 Laboratory of Clinical Science, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Three rhesus monkeys which had been isolated from social contact during their first year of life persistently overate and overdrank during adulthood. These monkeys ingested approximately twice as much fluid and food as the control animals reared normally.


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