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In an effort to help save an endangered Australian marsupial called the northern quoll, researchers paired a nausea-inducing drug with a toad the quolls often eat. In this application of a phenomenon called _____, the toads researchers used are a(n) _____.

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In this application of a phenomenon called conditioned taste aversion, the toads researchers used are a(n) _CS____.

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  • A type of associative learning technique in which the animals learn to associate the taste of a certain food with certain illness symptoms caused by toxic,spoiled or Poisonous food item is known as Conditioned taste aversion.

  • This phenomenon is also called as "Sauce-Bearnaise Syndrome".
  • It was in the year 1950 john Garcia demonstrated this phenomenon

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