Sentence examples for distasteful substance from inspiring English sources

They found that the clam has sulfur in its fleshy lips and tentacles and suspect that, like another clam species that drop tentacles laden with sulfuric acid to deter predators, the disco clam's sulfur also gets converted into a distasteful substance.

While this has conventionally been considered a way to remove and control feather parasites, it has been suggested that for antbirds it may simply be a way to deal with the distasteful substances in prey items.

In addition, most species of amphibian have granular glands that secrete distasteful or poisonous substances.

It has many glands, particularly on the head and back, which often exude distasteful and toxic substances.

Adjacent trials were spaced by 12 13 min. We reasoned that if the contact with aversive substances generates a distasteful sensory experience, pairing the US with them would lead to reward devaluation, and thus to CS devaluation.

On the contrary, the unpaired group would not exhibit such devaluation due to the lack of contingency between the US and the distasteful experience generated by the aversive substances.

In the case of studies on honeybee gustation in the laboratory (harnessed bees), recent results have suggested that the main effect produced by bitter substances is not a distasteful gustatory one, as suggested in our case, but rather a post-ingestional one, given that in all cases bees drank the aversive compounds without reluctance [25].

The Lords approved the substance of the petition, but were worried it would be distasteful to Charles and attempted to "sweeten" the wording.

The aversive effect induced by this substance in visual discrimination experiments would be based on a distasteful gustatory experience rather than on a post-ingestional malaise.

Free-flying bees did not use remote cues to detect the presence of quinine solution; the aversive effect exerted by this substance was mediated via a gustatory input, i.e. via a distasteful sensory experience, rather than via a post-ingestional malaise.

We show that bees do not use remote cues to detect the presence of the quinine solution and that the aversive effect exerted by this substance, in the case of free-flying bees, is mediated via a gustatory input, i.e. via a distasteful sensory experience, rather than via a post-ingestional malaise.