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Animals, Volume 12, Issue 7

April-1 2022 - 143 articles

Cover Story: In modern nature conservation and rewilding, there is a need for controlling the movements of large grazers in extensively managed areas. The inflexibility of physical fencing can be a limitation in nature management, and the physical boundaries created by physical fencing can have detrimental effects on wildlife. Virtual fencing provides boundaries without physical barriers. Virtual fencing systems utilize collars with GPS technology to track animals and deliver auditory or electric cues to encourage animals to stay within predefined boundaries. These GPS-based fencing systems have the potential to improve grazing management. This study examines the use of the Nofence© virtual fencing system to keep a group of twelve Angus cows within a virtual enclosure without compromising animal welfare. View this paper
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Articles (143)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,937 Views
19 Pages

Feeding Habits of Sarda chiliensis chiliensis (Cuvier, 1832) in Northern Chile and Southern Perú

  • Renzo Pepe-Victoriano,
  • Héctor Aravena-Ambrosetti,
  • Jordan I. Huanacuni,
  • Felipe Méndez-Abarca,
  • Karina Godoy and
  • Nathalia Álvarez

5 April 2022

The trophic relationships of pelagic fishes with migratory traits such as the South Pacific Bonito, Sarda chiliensis chiliensis (Cuvier, 1832), have not been studied in depth in the past. The objective of the present research was to analyze the feedi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,179 Views
14 Pages

5 April 2022

Loss of genetic diversity and high inbreeding rates confer an increased risk of congenital anomalies and diseases and thus impacting dog breeding. In this study, we analyzed recent and ancestral inbreeding as well as other measures of genetic variabi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
24,718 Views
29 Pages

The Neurobiology of Behavior and Its Applicability for Animal Welfare: A Review

  • Genaro A. Coria-Avila,
  • James G. Pfaus,
  • Agustín Orihuela,
  • Adriana Domínguez-Oliva,
  • Nancy José-Pérez,
  • Laura Astrid Hernández and
  • Daniel Mota-Rojas

4 April 2022

Understanding the foundations of the neurobiology of behavior and well-being can help us better achieve animal welfare. Behavior is the expression of several physiological, endocrine, motor and emotional responses that are coordinated by the central...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,119 Views
16 Pages

Myostatin Knockout Limits Exercise-Induced Reduction in Bovine Erythrocyte Oxidative Stress by Enhancing the Efficiency of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway

  • Lin Zhu,
  • Chunling Bai,
  • Xueqiao Wang,
  • Zhuying Wei,
  • Mingjuan Gu,
  • Xinyu Zhou,
  • Guanghua Su,
  • Xuefei Liu,
  • Lei Yang and
  • Guangpeng Li

4 April 2022

Moderate exercise can strengthen the body, however, exhaustive exercise generates large amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Although erythrocytes have antioxidant systems that quickly eliminate ROS, erythrocytes become overwhelmed by ROS when t...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,389 Views
6 Pages

4 April 2022

Heterakidosis is a parasitic infection in birds caused by the cecal parasite Heterakis spp. The most common species in geese is H. dispar, the largest avian heterakids species. Because of a scarcity of data concerning the H. dispar population, the ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,755 Views
11 Pages

4 April 2022

Providing clean, comfortable bedding is essential for the growth and welfare of bulls. This study was aimed to investigate the effects of bedding thickness on growth performance, behavior, and welfare of bulls as well as gases concentration in the ba...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,073 Views
9 Pages

Differences in Fatty Acid Profile and Physical-Chemical Composition of Slavonska slanina—Dry Cured Smoked Bacon Produced from Black Slavonian Pig and Modern Pigs

  • Katarina Latin,
  • Krešimir Mastanjević,
  • Nikola Raguž,
  • Mateja Bulaić,
  • Ras Lužaić,
  • Marija Heffer and
  • Boris Lukić

4 April 2022

The objective of this study was to compare the psysico-chemical composition and fatty acid (FFA) profile of traditional dry cured bacon Slavonska slanina, produced from the authentic Black Slavonian Pig (BP) and modern pigs (MP), using traditional ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,305 Views
13 Pages

Keeping Up with Insect Pollinators in Paris

  • Vincent Zaninotto and
  • Isabelle Dajoz

4 April 2022

There is growing interest in urban pollinator communities, although they may be subject to biotic homogenization in densely artificial landscapes. Paris (France) is one of the densest cities in the world, yet over the years many insect pollinator spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,052 Views
15 Pages

4 April 2022

The objectives of the current study were first to determine the prevalence of non O157:H7E. coli, especially Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in retailed milk and dairy products in Egypt. Second, the antimicrobial resistance profiling an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,217 Views
16 Pages

4 April 2022

Unfenced sites on mainland New Zealand have long been considered impossible to defend from reinvasion by possums, and are thus unsuitable for eradication. In July 2019, we began eliminating possums from 11,642 ha (including approximately 8700 ha of s...

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