Sentences with phrase «which ruminants»

It also has contributed to key insights about how animal behavior can be harnessed to improve the condition of the land, especially in regions like his native Zimbabwe with long dry seasons during which ruminants are conveyers of soil fertility and moisture.

Not exact matches

«As we are talking, we took in over 800 small ruminant (goats) today from Burkina Faso which will all be patronised in two or three days.

Because of the necessity of removing the corpses of ruminants from farming, «vultures have been faced with a scarcity of food, which has caused them to make changes in their diet by consuming a higher quantity of hunting species,» the researcher explains.

BSE emerged as a result of what originally looked like an ingenious use of beef by - products: feeding processed ground cow to ruminants, which are herbivores, not carnivores.

The first cases of the disease, which affects ruminants, began to surface this month, with France so far reporting 260.

At least 45 farms in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium have so far been affected by bluetongue disease, which infects ruminants such as cows, sheep, goats, and deer.

The natural reservoir of EHEC bacteria are ruminants such as cows and sheep, which carry the pathogens in their guts and spread them with their feces.

With one down, animal - health experts are pondering how to apply the lessons learned to the next target, which could be the peste des petites ruminants virus, which is highly contagious and lethal among sheep and goats.

Cows have the ability to digest cellulose — the carbohydrate that strengthens the cell walls of plants — because of «fibrolytic ruminal bacteria,» which represent just a few of the hundreds of species of microbes in the digestive systems of ruminants.

(6) This is because grain - based diets reduce the pH of the digestive system in ruminant animals, which inhibits the growth of the bacterium that produces CLA.

In addition to raw liver, I prepare the shakes with fermented vegetables like sauerkraut or kimchi (to simulate ruminant intestinal contents, which were also savored by traditional hunters) as well as kefir (unclear whether fermented milk was regularly consumed by hunters, but is nonetheless useful as a supplemental probiotic.)

The reason why it's able to extract that protein, which is bound to the plant fiber, is because a cow is a ruminant animal.

Butter is the richest dietary source of dairy trans fats, also called ruminant trans fats, the most common of which are vaccenic acid and conjugated linoleic acid or CLA (4).

Also, organic dairy products have usually come from cows that have been grass - fed (as opposed to GMO - grains, which is not natural for these big ruminants).

It is clear from the anthropological record, evolutionary biology and basic anatomy humans are acid digesters, not hindgut or ruminant digesters and thus evolved to be fat burning animals which are uniquely capable of metabolizing sugar on those seasonal occasions where fruits, berries or tubers were ripe.

This year's winner in the annual contest is a 16 - year - old ruminant named Demyte, which means «little spot.»

I've enjoyed a long career in animal nutrition — first with Purina and later with Moorman's — throughout which I have been committed to producing outstanding nutritional products for a variety of species, including swine and ruminant animals, as well as family pets including dogs, cats and horses.

Small ruminants like sheep and goats are especially vulnerable to the effects of intestinal parasites, because the worm burden increases quickly on the close - grazed pastures on which these animals are raised.

«The Zoetis scholarship program enabled me to pursue a summer placement in Mongolia working with small ruminants in a public health setting, which has led to a new interest in international public health challenges,» said scholarship recipient Kristen E. Malinak, a student at North Carolina State University, class of 2018.

One should also pay attention to other greenhouse gases, particularly methane (from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (from the nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.

So transportation is 17 % * 1.6 W / m2 = 0.27 W / m2 and ruminants 24 % * 0.8 W / m2 = 0.19 W / m2 (less if you use the SPM numbers which deal with the indirect impacts of CH4 on O3 etc.).

«Interestingly, we also found that a shift away from ruminant meats like beef — which have impacts three to 10 times greater than other animal - based foods — towards nutritionally similar foods like pork, poultry or fish would have significant benefits, both for the environment and for human health.

This brief gives an overview of the enteric fermentation, which is a natural part of the digestive process of ruminants where microbes decompose and ferment feed present in the digestive tract to produce energy and protein along with methane.

Ruminants, which ferment plants in a specialized stomach before digestion, are estimated to be the largest single human - related source of methane, with greenhouse - gas emissions from sheep and cattle 19 to 48 times higher than beans or grains per pound of food produced, according to the report.

Whereas in nature, cattle, which are ruminants, convert inedible - to - humans grasses into high - grade proteins, under industrial production, grainfed cattle only provide about one pound of beef for every 10 to 16 pounds of feed they consume.

Ruminants digest through microbial, or «enteric» fermentation, which produces methane that is released by the animals through belching and, to a lesser degree, via flatulence.