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Diet selection and animal state: an integrative framework [PDF]

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 1999
In the present paper we deal with the problems of explaining and predicting diet selection of animals under controlled conditions, i.e. conditions that can be described and in which any influences of the environment can be either controlled or at least monitored.
Kyriazakis, Ilias, Tolkamp, Bert J., Emmans, Gerry   +2 more
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Influence of agricultural crops adjacent to forest on woody species browsing: Is it advantageous to have a tasty neighbour?

Journal of Forest Science, 2016
Preference of biotopes and selection of food by wild herbivores are more complicated in a cultural landscape used for agriculture than in natural conditions.
J. Kamler, M. Homolka
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Use of Unpalatable Forages by Ruminants: The Influence of Experience with the Biophysical and Social Environment

Animals, 2018
Unpalatable forage resources (low nutrient density, potentially toxic metabolites) are widespread and represent a challenge for ruminant nutrition, health, and welfare.
Roberto A. Distel, Juan J. Villalba
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Parasite dilution improves lamb growth more than does the complementarity of forage niches in a mesic pasture grazed by sheep and cattle

Frontiers in Animal Science, 2022
Agroecological practices can improve the functioning of livestock farming systems by optimizing their underlying biological processes. Sheep/cattle mixed-grazing is an example of such a practice in which sheep grazing with cattle can achieve a higher ...
Frédéric Joly, Priscilla Note, Marc Barbet, Philippe Jacquiet, Sandrine Faure, Marc Benoit, Bertrand Dumont   +6 more
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Preference by sheep for endophyte-infected tall fescue grown adjacent to or at a distance from alfalfa

Animal, 2015
Two experiments were conducted to assess preference by sheep for endophyte-infected tall fescue growing in monoculture at least 5 m away from alfalfa (fescue-middle (FM)) over endophyte-infected tall fescue growing adjacent (0.2 to 1 m; fescue–alfalfa ...
M.A. Friend, F.D. Provenza, J.J. Villalba   +2 more
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The Effect of Tannins on Mediterranean Ruminant Ingestive Behavior: The Role of the Oral Cavity

Molecules, 2011
Sheep, cattle and goat are domestic ruminants of significant economic interest in the Mediterranean region. Although sharing the same pasture ranges, they ingest different plants and plant parts and, consequently different levels of tannins.
Elsa Lamy, Ana Varela Coelho, Elvira Sales-Baptista, Célia Antunes, Ana Rodrigues Costa, Florian J. Schweigert, Ana Ferreira, André Martinho Almeida, Harshadrai Rawel, Fernando Capela e Silva   +9 more
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Techniques Used to Determine Botanical Composition, Intake, and Digestibility of Forages by Ruminants

Agronomy, 2022
The botanical and chemical composition of diets consumed by ruminants is different from the composition of plant species available in the rangeland or pastures on which they graze.
Bulelani Nangamso Pepeta, Mehluli Moyo, Festus Adeyemi Adejoro, Abubeker Hassen, Ignatius Verla Nsahlai   +4 more
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An assessment of diet overlap of two mesocarnivores in the North-West Province, South Africa [PDF]

, 2009
We used scat analysis to study the diet of two sympatric medium-sized carnivores: brown hyaena and black-backed jackal, in the NorthWest Province of South Africa.
Craig J. Tambling, Richard W. Yarnell, Scott, Dawn M., Green, M, Cameron, E., Green, M., Yarnell, RW, Bateman, P., Philip W. Bateman, Van der Merwe, I., Bateman, PW, Van der Merwe, Ingrid, Ingrid van der Merwe, van der Merwe, I, Tambling, Craig J., Tambling, C., Scott, D., Yarnell, Richard W., Cameron, EZ, Michelle Thorn, Elissa Z. Cameron, Thorn, M., Yarnell, R., Bateman, Bill, Matthew Green, Scott, Dawn, Green, Matthew, Bateman, Philip W., Thorn, M, Dawn M. Scott, Thorn, Michelle, Tambling, CJ, Cameron, Elissa Z., Scott, DM   +33 more
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Diet quality determines interspecific parasite interactions in host populations [PDF]

, 2014
The widespread occurrence of multiple infections and the often vast range of nutritional resources for their hosts allow that interspecific parasite interactions in natural host populations might be determined by host diet quality. Nevertheless, the role
Lange, B., Ebert, Dieter, Reuter, M., Reuter, Max, Decaestecker, Ellen, Decaestecker, E., Muylaert, Koenraad, Muylaert, K., Lange, Benjamin   +8 more
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Diet selection and performance of horses grazing on different heathland types

Animal, 2017
The number of horses in northern Spanish mountains has increased in recent decades, but little is known about their grazing behaviour, performance and potential for foal meat production.
C. López López, L.M.M. Ferreira, U. García, J. Moreno-Gonzalo, M.A.M. Rodrigues, K. Osoro, I. Ferre, R. Celaya   +7 more
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