Re: Spoiled Reward-Pathway Hypothesis

From: Philip Jonkers (P.A.E.Jonkers@phys.rug.nl)
Date: Sat Aug 18 2001 - 13:44:20 BST

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    Philip wrote:
    > > Consistent with the ideas presented above, addiction in animals
    > living
    > > in a natural environment is very improbable. Does anybody know of
    > > cases reporting animal addictive behavior?
    > >
    Joe wrote:
    > In studies of addiction performed upon chimpanzees, 'junkie
    > monkeys' eagerly extende their arms for their daily fix; rats would
    > push a lever which electrostimulated the pleasure centers in their
    > brains rather than other levers that fed them, to the point of
    > starvation, and other such results were reported with the
    > dispensation of cocaine to rats.

    I already knew that animals can be tempted into addictive behavior
    in a lab-environment. My question was actually about possible cases
    of animal addiction in non-lab environment, i.e. in their natural
    habitat. Do you know of any?

    Philip.

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