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Maternal contact and positive human interactions during lactation impact on pig stress resilience post-weaning

This study investigated the impact of early life interactions on stress resilience of weaner pigs. The hypotheses tested were that reduced maternal contact increases the stress response of pigs to weaning, and that positive human contact during lactation
Tilbrook, AJ, Tomas, K, Hemsworth, PH, Plush, KJ, Savaglia, J, D'Souza, DN, Butler, KL   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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

Dietary supplementation of Platycodon grandiflorum polysaccharides mitigates weaning stress in piglets by modulating intestinal microbiota and improving gut health. [PDF]

Anim Biosci
Li S, Cao M, Dong J, Hao J, Wei H, Guo Y, Wang H, Liu X, Sun H.   +8 more
europepmc   +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

Effects of milk, milk replacer, and milk replacer plus ethoxyquin on the growth performance, weaning stress, and the fecal microbiota of Holstein dairy calves. [PDF]

Front Microbiol, 2023
Wei X, Zou J, Zhang Y, Yang J, Wang J, Wang Y, Wang C.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Weathering the storm: Most maternal and environmental drivers of individual reproductive success do not scale up to population recruitment in a large herbivore

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using 18 years of data on eastern grey kangaroos, we show that drivers of individual reproductive success often do not scale up to population recruitment. Birth asynchrony could buffer population recruitment against environmental variability, such that variables affecting individual reproduction have little impact at the population level.
Rachel Bergeron, Richard P. Duncan, David M. Forsyth, Wendy J. King, Marco Festa‐Bianchet   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dietary medium-chain fatty acid and Bacillus in combination alleviate weaning stress of piglets by regulating intestinal microbiota and barrier function. [PDF]

J Anim Sci, 2023
Jiao S, Zheng Z, Zhuang Y, Tang C, Zhang N.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hominin dispersals: causes, conditions, and outcomes Dispersions des hominines : causes, conditions et issues

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The ‘Out of Africa’ model that has dominated palaeoanthropology for nearly three decades was originally based on five elements: a recent ancestry to human populations; an African origin for the ancestral population; limited or no gene flow among archaic hominins and no admixture between modern humans and Neanderthals; a marked difference between the ...
Robert A. Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal experience affects the behavioral response and the daily weight gain to weaning stress in lambs. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Damián JP, van Lier E, Claramunt M, González D, Banchero G, Suárez G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source