Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Our study demonstrates how life history trade‐offs and pair bonds influence winter roosting in red kites. Analysing long‐term GPS data from 216 individuals, we reveal marked behavioural plasticity in communal roosting: young, non‐breeding males are most likely to join communal roosts, whereas breeding pairs predominantly roost together near their ...
Benedetta Catitti +6 more
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The Impact of Purebred Zebu Breeds on Growth Performance and Carcass Characteristics. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Rezende-de-Souza JH +7 more
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Herbivore and mesocarnivore carcasses trigger divergent short‐term changes in soil properties
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Scavengers reshape nutrient cycles in soils under carrion. Compared to herbivore carcasses, smaller but longer‐lasting carnivore remains boost nutrient levels and microbial activity in dry soils. Abstract Animal corpses act as pulses of organic matter (OM) and serve a key zoogeochemical role by providing localized nutrient inputs to soils and thereby ...
Adrián Colino‐Barea +15 more
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Impact of Dietary Protein Levels and Gender on Carcass Characteristics and Meat Quality in Slow-Growing Ducks. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Jiang Y +9 more
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US Consumer Appetite for Climate Claims on Beef Products: Does Country‐of‐Origin Matter?
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Beef cattle producers have been receiving pressure to reduce methane emissions from production. Beef products with varying climate claims have recently been introduced to the retail sector, stemming from various countries‐of‐origin. Using data from a US consumer survey, we find a subset of US consumers is willing to pay a premium for Lower ...
Jaime R. Luke, Glynn T. Tonsor
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Effect of feeding mulberry leaves on nutrient digestibility, carcass characteristics, blood parameters and productive performance of growing Flanders rabbits. [PDF]
Trop Anim Health ProdHassanien HAM +6 more
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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF GENETIC INFORMATION: LEPTIN GENOTYPING IN FED CATTLE [PDF]
The use of genetic knowledge is widespread in crop production but is just recently being utilized in livestock production. This study investigates the economic value to feedlots of a polymorphism in the bovine leptin gene.
Bauer, Marc L. +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
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Growth Performance, Carcass Characteristics, and Meat Quality of Lambs Fed a High-Forage, Low-Starch, High-Oil Diet. [PDF]
FoodsJerónimo E +8 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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