Czy owce pijo wutke?

Takie pytanie zadałem dla śmieszków z godzinę temu i okazuje się, że jest badanie, które dokładnie to sprawdza: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7611530/

Patrzymy co tam piszą:

Sheep that were habituated to drinking 10% (vol/vol) ethanol solution instead of water were subjected to proven thirst stimuli to study the effect of chronic ethanol intake on brain mechanisms subserving thirst. Sheep that had not previously drunk 10% ethanol were also tested. All sheep were trained to press a pedal that delivered 50 ml/press of fluid (either 10% ethanol or water) into a drinking cup. In some experiments, fluids were presented in bins. All animals had access to only one fluid at a time. Five ethanol-drinking sheep appeared healthy and maintained body weight over 18 mo. They always preferred water to 10% ethanol.

Jak widać owce raczej stronią od alkoholizowania się. Ale jak taki Tomek, który mówi, że nie dzisiaj nie pije, nie może, ale ja przyjdzie co do czego, to smutny, że skrzynka pusta.

Przy głębszej lekturze tego badania w, hehe, otwartym dostępnie na scihubie pojawiają się jednak pytania:

The aversion of sheep to 10% ethanol compared with water raises the question whether taste alone is an adequate explanation of the relative rejection of 10% ethanol despite apparent thirst stimulation, particularly when the animals were pedal pressing for the fluid.

I tutaj ciekawostka:

However sheep were together in a pen with ad libitum food, they required less food than other groups of sheep in pens. Also, when they were in individual cages, they ate their daily ration of 800g of food through the day, sometimes leaving a small quantity, whereas other sheep in cages ate all of their ration in a few hours. Certainly alcohol-drinking sheep had a less avid food appetite than water-drinking sheep on the same feeding regimens, probably due to the caloric intake obtained as ethanol.

Owce nie tylko nie lubią pić, ale jeszcze liczą kalorie xD

Nauka nie zna jednak odpowiedzi na pytanie co jest najlepsze na owczego kaca:

The metabolism of ethanol in sheep has not been extensively investigated

Ale pod drzewem życia niedaleko pada owca od człowieka, więc możemy założyć, że najskuteczniejszy będzie klasyk znany dziadkom, czyli powietrze z pompki od materaca (slow clap).

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