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Assessing physiological, behavioral and movement responses to Suprelorin implant delivery methods in free‐ranging eastern grey kangaroos Macropus giganteus

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Overabundant populations of eastern grey kangaroos Macropus giganteus in peri‐urban areas pose ecological and social challenges. Current management strategies are often hindered by animal welfare and logistical concerns. This study aimed to assess stress responses of kangaroos to two contraceptive delivery methods.
Fabiola R. O. Silva, Sebastien Comte, Tamara Keeley, Maquel Brandimarti, Catherine A. Herbert   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFFECTIVENESS OF REARING AND FATTENING OF LOW-WEIGHT PIGLETS DUE TO CHANGES IN THEIR FEEDING SYSTEMS [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development
The article contains the results of a study on the conservation, growth dynamics from birth to slaughter and economic efficiency of growing and fattening pigs depending on their live weight at birth and different feeding systems during the production ...
Igor MOISEI, Mykola POVOD, Oleksandr MYKHALKO, Mykola POVOZNIKOV, Bogdan GUTYJ, Yulia IEVSTAFIIEVA, Vita BUCHKOVSKA   +6 more
doaj  

Adjusting Our Thinking About Feeding Animals: Fiber as the Metric for Mimicking Natural Diets

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
A typical effect of the change of an animal group to a diet higher in fiber: juveniles keep growing, animals of ideal body weight maintain their weight, and obese individuals lose weight. ABSTRACT Free‐ranging animals often ingest markedly different diets than their counterparts under human care, whether companion animals, production animals, or zoo ...
Marcus Clauss, Geert P. J. Janssens, Oliver Pritchard Moore, Sarah Byrne, Marcin Przybyło   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes of Microbial and Component Composition of Giraffe Milk During Mid‐ to Late Lactation

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
Giraffe milk – graphical abstract text, Giraffe: late lactation milk, Involution at approximately 15 months of lactation, Content of saccharides and fat decrease, Protein content increases, Content of minerals increase, Microbiological quality high ABSTRACT The proximate, mineral and microbiological composition of milk from five giraffes from mid ...
G. Osthoff, C. J Hugo, S Van der Merwe, A Hugo, F Deacon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive success under constraints: Does increased maternal activity during lactation offset poor habitat and individual quality in an income breeder?

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Human‐induced environmental modifications may alter forage access and, hence, how animals manage energy trade‐offs during critical periods. Reproduction, especially lactation, is the most energetically costly process for female mammals.
L. Monica Trondrud, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Nadège C. Bonnot, Nicolas Morellet, Yannick Chaval, Arnaud Bonnet, Bruno Lourtet, A. J. Mark Hewison   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Suckling Termination Data

, 2013
termination of suckling by the mares; data collected in the field; Microsoft Excel; TOD=time of day; em=early morning; lm=late morning; ea=early afternoon; la=late afternoon; Term=terminator of suckling; m=mare; f=foal; Termdum=dummy variable for ...
Cassandra Maria Victoria Nunez (3296934), James S. Adelman (360456), Daniel I. Rubenstein (360457)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

First Isolation of Klebsiella pneumoniae from Septicaemic Piglets in Poland

Microorganisms
Klebsiella pneumoniae is commonly known to cause a vast range of community-acquired or nosocomial infections. The isolation of K. pneumoniae has also been noted in diseased food-producing animals, including swine.
Piotr Cybulski, Ines Spiekermeier, Radosław Kondratiuk, Artur Jabłoński, Patryk Tarka, Grzegorz Woźniakowski   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
wiley   +1 more source

Rapid effect on suckling of an oxytocin antisense oligonucleotide administered into rat supraoptic nucleus

, 1994
Suckling in the lactating rat (days 6-10 of lactation) was used to characterize the effects of intracerebral oxytocin (Oxt) antisense oligonucleotide treatment on the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system.
I. Neumann, R. Landgraf, Q. J. Pittman, D. W. Porter   +3 more
core   +1 more source