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d-Amphetamine inhibited mouse, frog, and cricket killing in the rat and cricket killing in the laboratory mouse. Feeding on the same prey was also inhibited, but required a lower dose of the drug. While the anoxeric effects of d-amphetamine may contribute to the drug’s inhibition of prey killing, other actions of the drug also appear to be involved.
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This research was supported by USPHS Grant MH21247 to Russell C. Leaf and Patricia E. Gay, Principal Investigators, by a grant from the Research Council of Rutgers University to Patricia E. Gay and Sherwood O. Cole, and by gifts of equipment and supplies from the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. The amphetamine used in these studies was generously supplied by Smith, Kline, and French Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This paper was presented at a meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, New York, 1975. We are indebted to Irving Miller, Ray Costello, Elizabeth Sutton, Michael Hatalovsky, and JoAnn Call for technical assistance through the course of the research.
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Gay, P.E., Potter, L.S., Consalvi, J.A. et al. The effects of d-amphetamine on prey killing and prey eating in the rat and mouse. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 10, 385–388 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329368
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