Is sugar as sweet to the palate as seeds are appetizing to the belly? Taste responsiveness to five food-associated carbohydrates in zoo-housed white-faced sakis, Pithecia pithecia.

Behavioral observations Although we did not systematically record or analyse the frequency of alternations between bottles in a given 2-min trial, the sakis showed a trend for more alternations between bottles in trials when lower concentrations of the taste stimuli were presented compared to trials in which higher concentrations were presented.

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