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An experiment on the gustatory sense of a newt, Triturus pyrrogaster

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    The gustatory sense of a newt for salty substances has been investigated by the dresseur method.

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    Most of the inorganic salty compounds seem to show the similar kind of taste for the newt.

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    The organic salty compounds seem to have tastes different from the inorganic compounds above mentioned, though sodium malate showed a trace of the positive reaction seen in salty chemicals.

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  1. Zoological Institute, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Tohru Uchida

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In honor of Prof. Karl von Frisch on his seventieth birthday.

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Uchida, T. An experiment on the gustatory sense of a newt, Triturus pyrrogaster . Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie 39, 357–360 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00340539

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