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The Determinants of Alcohol Preference in Animals

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The Biology of Alcoholism

Abstract

If an animal drinks a solution containing ethyl alcohol when another fluid is available, it is difficult to know what this selection actually means. Facing the scientist are exceedingly complex variables: those inherent in the environmental situation as well as those associated with the animal itself. We, the human observers, recording events and watching through the mesh of the cage, can only attempt to identify the factors which are responsible for the animal’s choice of an alcohol solution.

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