Abstracts » Zoology and wildlife conservation

A rule of thumb in mammalian herbivores?

Article Abstract:

Two experimental studies were conducted to determine how lambs, Ovis aries, generalize across flavors related with beneficial food. After conditioning the lambs with nutritious food, the lambs were then given nutritious food with varying concentrations of the original flavor. The lambs were initially aversed by flavor and preferred weaker flavors. All mammalian herbivores may exhibit similar behavior as a foraging strategy, specially when they are unfamiliar with the food they encounter.

Mammals, Lambs

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How do herbivores trade-off the positive and negative consequences of diet selection decisions?

Article Abstract:

Animal learning is examined using food preferences in goats based on positive and negative postingestive effects. In experiments, goats were found to prefer conifer species associated with positive effects supplied by researchers, and avoided those species for which researchers supplied negative effects.

Comparative analysis, Learning in animals, Animal learning

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Food preferences of grey partridge chicks, Perdix perdix, in relation to size, colour and movement of insect prey

Article Abstract:

Influence of movement, size, and color of insect prey on the food selection of grey partridge chicks, Perdix perdix, is discussed.

United Kingdom, Other Animal Food Manufacturing, Prepared feeds, not elsewhere classified, Bird Feed, Food and nutrition, Chicks, Chicks (Infant chickens), Bird food, Pelleted feed

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