Do Animals Have a Sweet Tooth?
Mar 01, 2022
4 minutes
by Alice Andre-Clark
Does your dog Scruffy stare longingly at your half-eaten strawberry ice cream cone as you lick it? Does he scarf up cookie crumbs better than any vacuum cleaner? If so, your pet is one of many animals that like sweet things. Some animals would love a sip of your aspartame-sweetened diet soda, while others couldn’t even taste the sweetness in the frosting on a slice of birthday cake. In 2008, scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, discovered an animal that likes almost all the same kinds of sweets that humans do. And you might
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