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Neo‐Taphonomic Analysis of Prey Bone Remains Accumulated by Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos): A Case of Nests in Southern France

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nests in rock cavities where it accumulates prey bone remains during the breeding season. Because nests can be reoccupied from year to year, these faunal elements can form remarkable bone accumulations and, in the sub‐fossil record, be mixed with assemblages derived from human or other predator activities ...
Juliette Ripond, Véronique Laroulandie, Jean‐Baptiste Mallye, Renaud Nadal, Patrick Bayle, Christian Itty   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Welfare Survey of 30 Dairy Goat Farms in the Midwestern United States

Animals, 2021
Dairy goat production in the Midwestern United States is increasing at a rapid rate and information on dairy goat husbandry practices applicable for producers in this region is limited. The objective of this study was to survey 30 dairy goat farms in the
Melissa N. Hempstead, Taylor M. Lindquist, Jan K. Shearer, Leslie C. Shearer, Paul J. Plummer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gait and Force Analysis of Provoked Pig Gait on Clean and Fouled Concrete Surfaces [PDF]

, 2009
Gait and force analysis have proven to be useful methods in linking claw injuries to surface material conditions. To determine the relationship between claw disorder and floor properties such as friction and surface abrasiveness, the factors controlling ...
Applegate, ASTM, Brooks, Burnfield, C. Nilsson, Cartmill, Cham, Cham, Chang, Clayton, De Belie, Flower, Grönquist, H. von Wachenfelt, Hall, Hanson, Hildebrand, Hildebrand, Hodson, Hottinger, Howell, Jörgensen, Lahrmann, Lemelin, McKee, Perkins, Phillips, Phillips, Powers, Rajkondawar, Redfern, Redfern, S. Pinzke, Strandberg, Telezhenko, Thorup, van der Tol, von Wachenfelt, von Wachenfelt, Webb, Webb   +40 more
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A Quantitative Approach to Record Skeletal Manifestations of Leprosy and Its Application to St Mary Magdalen Leprosarium, Winchester

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents and tests a new method for publishing and diagnosing leprosy‐related skeletal lesions while making available the leprosy‐related demographic data and pathology for St Mary Magdalen, Winchester (MMW). This method can facilitate interstudy comparisons of leprosy prevalence and severity by improving data comparability.
A. A. Blom, H. Dawson‐Hobbis, S. Gross, K. White‐Iribhogbe, V. J. Schuenemann, S. A. Inskip   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organic Livestock: Animal Health, Welfare and Husbandry Assessment of existing knowledge and production of an advisory resource compendium(OF0162) [PDF]

, 2001
1. A compendium of animal health and welfare information relevant to organic livestock production has been produced by the Organic Livestock Research Group (OLRG), Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit (VEERU), Department of Agriculture ...
Hovi, Malla, Roderick, Stephen
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Lameness in cattle: recent research to inform clinical practice [PDF]

, 2015
Lameness in cattle has significant consequences for welfare, health and productivity. More research is now being done on lameness and this article, the first in a two-part series, provides an update on research-based advances in the field published from ...
Huxley, J.N., Maxwell, O.J.R., Miguel-Pacheco, G.G., Newsome, R., Randall, L.V., Remnant, J.G., Thomas, H.J.   +6 more
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Hallux Valgus and Associated Foot Pathology in Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Computed Tomography Study

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to gain information on the prevalence and manifestation of hallux valgus and associated foot pathology in ancient Egyptian mummies. Additionally, we investigated possible indicators of postmortem deformation of the feet during mummification. For this study, 34 mummies that had undergone whole body computed tomography (
Stephanie Panzer, Peter Augat, Klaus Hergan, Alice Paladin, Stephanie Zesch, Wilfried Rosendahl, Randall C. Thompson, Albert R. Zink   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data on Gastrointestinal and Claw Disorders as Possible Predictive Factors in Beef Cattle and Veal Calves’ Health and Welfare

Data, 2022
Today, consumers have a growing concern about the welfare of beef cattle, and specific schemes have been proposed to assess their wellbeing during the fattening.
Luisa Magrin, Barbara Contiero, Giulio Cozzi, Flaviana Gottardo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vertebrate Footprints and Invertebrate Traces from the Cadronian(Late Eocene) of Trans-Pecos Texas [PDF]

, 1994
Contents: Abstract -- Introduction -- Methods -- Acknowledgments -- Systematic Paleontology -- Vertebrate Footprints -- Invertebrate Traces -- Conclusions -- Plates -- ReferencesCeratomorph remains found in Eocene and Oligocene deposits of Trans-Pecos ...
Langston Jr, Wann, S. Sarjeant, William Anthony   +1 more
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Supporting the development and adoption of automatic lameness detection systems in dairy cattle : effect of system cost and performance on potential market shares [PDF]

, 2017
Most automatic lameness detection system prototypes have not yet been commercialized, and are hence not yet adopted in practice. Therefore, the objective of this study was to simulate the effect of detection performance (percentage missed lame cows and ...
Lauwers, Ludwig, Saeys, Wouter, Van De Gucht, Tim, Van Nuffel, Annelies, Van Weyenberg, Stephanie, Vangeyte, Jurgen   +5 more
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