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Malnutrition --- Energy Intake --- Feeding Behavior --- Nursing Homes --- Quality of Life --- prevention & control --- statistics & numerical data --- Netherlands.

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For more than 30 years, modelling has been an important method for integrating, in a flexible, comprehensive and widely applicable way, basic knowledge and biological concepts on digestion and metabolism in farm animals. The purpose of this book is to present the 'state of art' in this area. The chapters are written by leading teams and researchers in this field of study, mainly from Europe, North America and Australasia. Considerable progress has been made in topics dealing with: modelling methods, feeding behaviour, digestion and metabolic processes in ruminants and monogastric animals. This progress is clearly illustrated by the emergence of a new paradigm in animal nutrition, which has moved from the aim to cover the requirements of the animal to explaining and predicting the responses of the animals to diets (e.g., productivity and efficiency, impact on quality of products, environmental aspects, health and well-being). In this book several chapters illustrate that through empirical models, meta-analysis is an efficient tool to synthesize information gathered over recent decades. In addition, compared with other books on modelling farm animal nutrition, two new aspects received particular attention: expanding knowledge of the individual animal to understanding the functioning and management of herds, and the consideration of the environmental impact of animal production. This book is a valuable source of information for researchers, nutritionists, advisors, and graduate students who want to have up-to-date and concise information on mathematical modelling applied to farm animals.

Animal nutrition. --- Digestion --- Computer simulation. --- Life sciences. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Physiology --- Indigestion --- Nutrition --- Animals --- Domestic animals --- Livestock --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Food. --- Animal diets --- Animal feeding behavior --- Animal food --- Animal food habits --- Animal foods --- Animals, Food habits of --- Feeding behavior in animals --- Food habits in animals --- Food of wild animals --- Foraging behavior in animals --- Animal behavior --- Food --- Feeding behavior --- Food habits --- Foods --- Foraging behavior

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Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large-as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake's digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat

Animals --- Animal diets --- Animal feeding behavior --- Animal food --- Animal food habits --- Animal foods --- Animals, Food habits of --- Feeding behavior in animals --- Food habits in animals --- Food of wild animals --- Foraging behavior in animals --- Animal behavior --- Food --- Food. --- Feeding behavior --- Food habits --- Foods --- Foraging behavior --- ecology, ecological, behavior, behavioral, evolution, evolutionary, biology, sciences, scientific, biological, imperative, foraging, foragers, cognitive science, anthropology, conservation, economics, neurobiology, technology, cognition, population, community, mammals, amphibians, food, eating, survival, neuroethology, energy storage, social interactions, diversity, dynamics, free distribution, provisioning, animals, wildlife.

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Appetite --- Appetite disorders --- Feeding Behavior --- Food --- periodicals. --- Appetite. --- Feeding Behavior. --- Food. --- Food Habits. --- Appétit --- Appétit, Troubles de l' --- Appetite disorders. --- Nutrients --- Foods --- Diet Habits --- Eating Habits --- Dietary Habits --- Eating Behavior --- Feeding Patterns --- Food Habits --- Behavior, Eating --- Behavior, Feeding --- Behaviors, Eating --- Behaviors, Feeding --- Diet Habit --- Dietary Habit --- Eating Behaviors --- Eating Habit --- Feeding Behaviors --- Feeding Pattern --- Food Habit --- Habit, Diet --- Habit, Dietary --- Habit, Eating --- Habit, Food --- Habits, Diet --- Habits, Dietary --- Habits, Eating --- Habits, Food --- Pattern, Feeding --- Patterns, Feeding --- Appetite Alterations --- Alteration, Appetite --- Alterations, Appetite --- Appetite Alteration --- Appetites --- Appetite disturbances --- Disorders of appetite --- Nutrient --- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena --- Nutritional Requirements --- Nutrition Disorders --- Nutrition disorders --- Symptoms --- Hunger --- Nutrition --- Psychological aspects --- Feeding-Related Behavior --- Behavior, Feeding-Related --- Feeding Related Behavior --- Feeding-Related Behaviors

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The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and Vogt draw on more than fifty years of fieldwork to elucidate the natural history of these species. The volume includes an extensive introduction to turtle anatomy, taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and physiology. A key to the turtles of Mexico is included along with individual species accounts featuring geographic distribution maps and detailed color illustrations. Specific topics discussed for each species include habitat, diet, feeding behavior, reproduction, predators, parasites, growth and ontogeny, sexual dimorphism, growth rings, economic use, conservation, legal protection, and taxonomic studies. This book is a complete reference for scientists, conservationists, and professional and amateur enthusiasts who wish to study Mexican turtles.

Turtles --- Chelonia (Order) --- Cryptodira --- Fresh-water turtles --- Freshwater turtles --- Pleurodira --- Terrapins --- Testudinata --- Testudines --- Tortoises --- Reptiles --- amphibians. --- animals. --- biology. --- complete reference. --- conservation. --- conservationists. --- detailed color illustrations. --- diet. --- distribution. --- ecology. --- engaging. --- feeding behavior. --- freshwater turtle species. --- geographic distribution. --- growth rings. --- guidebook. --- habitat. --- individual species. --- legal protection. --- life sciences. --- maps. --- mating. --- mexican turtles. --- mexico. --- natural history. --- nature. --- predators. --- reference. --- reproduction. --- reptiles. --- science. --- sexual dimorphism. --- taxonomic studies. --- terrestrial turtles. --- turtles.