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Animals, Volume 3, Issue 2

June 2013 - 15 articles

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Articles (15)

  • Review
  • Open Access
972 Citations
58,555 Views
14 Pages

Impact of Heat Stress on Poultry Production

  • Lucas J. Lara and
  • Marcos H. Rostagno

24 April 2013

Understanding and controlling environmental conditions is crucial to successful poultry production and welfare. Heat stress is one of the most important environmental stressors challenging poultry production worldwide. The detrimental effects of heat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,790 Views
7 Pages

18 April 2013

Theoretical calculations suggest that sounds produced by thunderstorms and detected by a system similar to the International Monitoring System (IMS) for the detection of nuclear explosions at distances ≥100 km, are at sound pressure levels equal to o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,244 Views
9 Pages

Assessing Ulcerative Pododermatitis of Breeding Rabbits

  • Joan M. Rosell and
  • L. Fernando De la Fuente

17 April 2013

Rabbits in conventional farms are housed in wire net cages with mesh floors to separate them from droppings. In time, lacerations appear on the legs of adult rabbits causing ulcerative pododermatitis or sore hocks, a severe health and welfare problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,166 Views
22 Pages

17 April 2013

Species distributions are usually inferred from occurrence records. However, these records are prone to errors in spatial precision and reliability. Although influence of spatial errors has been fairly well studied, there is little information on imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
26,649 Views
18 Pages

Conceptualising the Impact of Arousal and Affective State on Training Outcomes of Operant Conditioning

  • Melissa J. Starling,
  • Nicholas Branson,
  • Denis Cody and
  • Paul D. McGreevy

11 April 2013

Animal training relies heavily on an understanding of species-specific behaviour as it integrates with operant conditioning principles. Following on from recent studies showing that affective states and arousal levels may correlate with behavioural o...

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