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| Title |
Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats?
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0008993 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dara N. Orbach, Nina Veselka, Yvonne Dzal, Louis Lazure, M. Brock Fenton |
| Abstract |
In the wild, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats often eat fermenting fruits and nectar, and thus may consume levels of ethanol that could induce inebriation. To understand if consumption of ethanol by bats alters their access to food and general survival requires examination of behavioural responses to its ingestion, as well as assessment of interspecific variation in those responses. We predicted that bats fed ethanol would show impaired flight and echolocation behaviour compared to bats fed control sugar water, and that there would be behavioural differences among species. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 48 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 13% |
| Australia | 3 | 6% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| Germany | 2 | 4% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 19 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 40 | 83% |
| Scientists | 8 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 172 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 7 | 4% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 154 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 32 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 36 | 21% |
| Unknown | 15 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 110 | 64% |
| Environmental Science | 18 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 4% |
| Psychology | 3 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 13 | 8% |
| Unknown | 18 | 10% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 134. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 April 2024.
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#317,404
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#4,514
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#1,076
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#16
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