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Working donkey welfare assessment and owner survey in Meru County, Kenya
Animal WelfareThere are significant welfare concerns regarding the plight of working donkeys (Equus asinus) in developing countries. To-date, however, there has been limited work assessing the welfare of donkeys in many parts of Africa, including Kenya.
Martha Mellish, Jason Stull
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Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2005 Avaliou-se, durante quatro estações de monta (1/11 a 31/1 do ano seguinte), o efeito da ordem de parto (OP) e da condição corporal (CC), segundo escala de 1 (magra) a 5 (gorda), sobre o desempenho reprodutivo de 468 fêmeas Nelore, sendo 391 vacas ...
Antonio Vieira +4 more
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Animal, 2007 The objectives of this study were to see if the body condition score curve during lactation could be described using a model amenable to biological interpretation, a non-linear function assuming exponential rates of change in body condition with time ...
N.C. Friggens, J.H. Badsberg
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Fall bird migration in western North America during a period of heightened wildfire activity
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2022 Billions of birds annually migrate between breeding and nonbreeding grounds in North America. During fall 2020, there was a series of alarming mass-mortality events of migratory birds across the western United States, with estimates of 100,000 to 1 ...
Kyle D. Kittelberger +2 more
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Assessing Body Condition in Birds
, 1996 Important biological concepts typically have many definitions. Body condition is no exception; it is a multi-level phenomenon that can be defined either conceptually or operationally. Although at this time there is no clear consensus on the definition for body condition, conceptually, the term in many cases describes the degree to which an organism’s ...
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Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia VeterináriaAmong Kinetoplastida, the Trypanosoma is the genus with the highest occurrence infecting populations of marine fish and freshwater in the world, with high levels of prevalence, causing influences fish health and consequent economic losses, mainly for ...
Lincoln Lima Corrêa +3 more
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Avian Conservation and EcologyGrassland bird populations have experienced steep declines in recent decades, necessitating better understanding of factors affecting their reproductive success.
Heather M Kraus +5 more
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Drought-linked resource limitations on the body condition of a large ungulate
Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding how indirect effects of climate can interact with density-dependent processes has become increasingly important as variability changes resource availability for wildlife. Both climate and animal density can drive the abundance of vegetation
Casey L. Brown +6 more
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The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis in a wild vertebrate: dynamic interactions and health impacts
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe gut microbiota-immune-brain axis is a feedback network which influences diverse physiological processes and plays a pivotal role in overall health and wellbeing. Although research in humans and laboratory mice has shed light into the associations and
Hugo Pereira +19 more
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Body Condition Scoring for Horses
, 2019 Horse enthusiasts are often concerned about their horse’s health, appearance and performance. A major key to accomplishing these three goals is to keep your horse at a desirable body condition, or degree of fat cover. However, being able to accurately evaluate a horse to tell if they are over or underweight has been a subjective practice for many years.
Hoopes, Karl +2 more
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