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Volumes and frequencies of schedule-induced drinks were studied in three well trained rats as body weights rose from 80% to over 90% of normal. An inverse relationship between drinking and body weight obtained. It occurred mostly because draught size diminished as body weight increased, but also because occasions of drinking became less frequent.
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Keehn, J.D. Schedule-induced polydipsia, schedule-induced drinking, and body weight. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 13, 78–80 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335018
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335018