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IN a recent publication1, I made reference to a paper by Gregersen2 in which he recorded that dogs, confined in cages and fed once a day, drank water from time to time during 2–5 hours after the meal and scarcely at all at other times of the day. I interpreted this to mean that the dogs did not drink water until an interval of two hours had elapsed after the time of feeding, whereas the charts shown in Gregersen's paper indicate clearly that the dogs drank water from time to time during the 2–5 hours immediately following the time of feeding. I wish to record my apology for my error.
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BROWNLEE, A. Drinking Habits of Animals. Nature 146, 522 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146522a0
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