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Supplementing Citrus aurantium Flavonoid Extract in High-Fat Finishing Diets Improves Animal Behavior and Rumen Health and Modifies Rumen and Duodenum Epithelium Gene Expression in Holstein Bulls [PDF]
SIMPLE SUMMARY: Today, the commitment of beef production systems is to enhance their sustainability. Therefore, improving animal welfare and improving feed efficiency are both important challenges.
Anna Arís +8 more
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Animal Behavior uses broad organizing concepts to provide a framework for understanding the science of animal behavior. Featured studies illustrate each concept and emphasize the experimental designs and the hypothesis testing methods scientists use to address research questions.
Shawn E. Nordell, Thomas J. Valone
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Animal welfare is one of the most challenging issues in modern farm animal husbandry. Animal welfare indicators can be used to monitor welfare on farms or at slaughterhouses, with footpad dermatitis (FPD) being one of the most important indicators used ...
Jenny Stracke +5 more
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Assessing Mongolian gerbil emotional behavior: effects of two shock intensities and response-independent shocks during an extended inhibitory-avoidance task [PDF]
Despite step-down inhibitory avoidance procedures that have been widely implemented in rats and mice to study learning and emotion phenomena, performance of other species in these tasks has received less attention.
Camilo Hurtado-Parrado +11 more
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Smell of green leaf volatiles attracts white storks to freshly cut meadows
Finding food is perhaps the most important task for all animals. Birds often show up unexpectedly at novel food sources such as freshly tilled fields or mown meadows.
Martin Wikelski +8 more
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Beach balls: Assessing frustration tolerance in young children using a computerized task
Frustration tolerance is a skill related to emotional regulation processes and is important insofar as it affects people's social relationships and even health. Low levels of frustration tolerance in children have been associated with a greater number of
Annabel Jiménez-Soto +4 more
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Animal behavior: Innovation in the city
Behavioral innovations may help animals cope with new environments, but how such behaviors start is hard to capture. A new study reports the innovation and transmission of a new foraging culture in an urban parrot.
Beck, KB, Firth, JA
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Background FoxP transcription factors play crucial roles for the development and function of vertebrate brains. In humans the neurally expressed FOXPs, FOXP1, FOXP2, and FOXP4 are implicated in cognition, including language.
Adriana Schatton +4 more
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Temporal and spatial patterns of small vertebrate roadkill in a supercity of eastern China [PDF]
An assessment of animal roadkill can help develop road mitigation measures. This article is the first to report data on animal-vehicle collisions (AVCs) in Nanjing, a supercity in eastern China.
Qiong Wu +5 more
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Winokur et al. (2023) Video S1
Example of rat helping behavior (all experiments).Video for: Winokur, E. J., Song, C., Leija, E. S., Chen, J., Kross, S., Shamam, D., Aguilar-Rivera, M., Quinn, L. K., Rossano, F., & Chiba, A. A. (2023). Reciprocity in dyads and triads: Female rats alter
Animal Behavior & Cognition Journal (12484206)
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