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Animals, Volume 12, Issue 12

June-2 2022 - 122 articles

Cover Story: Time-activity budgets describe how animals divide their day into various behaviours and activities, e.g., time spent foraging or resting. Activity budgets serve as crucial indicators of energy intake and expenditure, providing knowledge on a species’ lifestyle. Conventionally, group-level time-activity budgets are quantified, ignoring the great variability among individuals. We considered animal personality, a behavioural and cognitive construct that makes one individual different from another, as a predictor of individual-level variation in time-activity budgets. Using a multi-method approach including behavioural observations and experiments, the personalities of lion-tailed macaques were assessed. As hypothesized, personality traits significantly predicted individual time-activity budgets, which can be broadly categorized into food-related, active, and resting behaviours. View this paper
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Articles (122)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,586 Views
13 Pages

20 June 2022

Modulen IBD is an enteral liquid diet that can induce remission rates similar to glucocorticoids in children with inflammatory bowel disease. The Modulen IBD liquid diet has not been previously investigated in dogs. Our study aimed to describe the us...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,507 Views
11 Pages

Influenza A in Wild Boars: Viral Circulation in the Emilia-Romagna Region (Northern Italy) between 2017 and 2022

  • Alice Prosperi,
  • Laura Soliani,
  • Elena Canelli,
  • Laura Baioni,
  • Valentina Gabbi,
  • Camilla Torreggiani,
  • Roberta Manfredi,
  • Irene Calanchi,
  • Giovanni Pupillo and
  • Filippo Barsi
  • + 6 authors

20 June 2022

A systematic surveillance against influenza A viruses (IAVs) in the Suidae population is essential, considering their role as IAV mixing vessels. However, the viral circulation in wild Sus scrofa species is poorly investigated in comparison to the kn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,957 Views
14 Pages

20 June 2022

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of fucoidan supplementation on serum biochemical parameters, small intestinal barrier function, and cecal microbiota of weaned goat kids. A total of 60 2-month-old weaned castrated male goat kids...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,666 Views
14 Pages

20 June 2022

Exploring suitable alternatives for high-cost concentrate feeds is a critical factor for successful livestock production. The present experiment aimed to evaluate the dietary inclusion of Moringa oleifera silage and Chlorella vulgaris microalgae (at...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,212 Views
9 Pages

20 June 2022

Yellow lamb disease is an infrequent disease in sheep for which there is scant literature, and that has been reported in the US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Europe, although anecdotal evidence indicates that it may have also been diagnos...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,616 Views
9 Pages

Prevalence and Evolution Analysis of Porcine Circovirus 3 in China from 2018 to 2022

  • Dengjin Chen,
  • Yi Huang,
  • Yating Guo,
  • Lihong Wang,
  • Yongning Zhang,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Xinna Ge,
  • Jun Han,
  • Xin Guo and
  • Hanchun Yang

20 June 2022

Porcine circovirus 3 (PCV3) is an emerging virus, causing substantial economic losses in pig populations, that was first detected in 2016. Furthermore, the virus has already been reported in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, including China, indicating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,604 Views
10 Pages

Two Different Copy Number Variations of the SOX5 and SOX8 Genes in Yak and Their Association with Growth Traits

  • Zhilong Zhang,
  • Min Chu,
  • Qi Bao,
  • Pengjia Bao,
  • Xian Guo,
  • Chunnian Liang and
  • Ping Yan

20 June 2022

Copy number variation (CNV) is a structural variant with significant impact on genetic diversity. CNV has been widely used in breeding for growth traits, meat production or quality, and coat color. SRY-like box genes (SOXs) are a class of transcripti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,583 Views
14 Pages

Immune Modulation Ability of Hepcidin from Teleost Fish

  • Claudio Andrés Álvarez,
  • Paula A. Santana,
  • Nicolás Salinas-Parra,
  • Dina Beltrán,
  • Fanny Guzmán,
  • Belinda Vega,
  • Félix Acosta and
  • Luis Mercado

20 June 2022

Antimicrobial peptides (AMP) play an essential role in the innate immune system, modulating the defense response. In a previous study, we demonstrated the antimicrobial activity of synthetic hepcidin (hep20) from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,006 Views
18 Pages

19 June 2022

Despite efforts of veterinarians and breeders, brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS) is still a common problem in pugs, underlining the need for objective tests to identify and prevent breeding with affected dogs. In the current study, a...

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