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Zooveillance: Foucault Goes To The Zoo, Irus Braverman
Zooveillance: Foucault Goes To The Zoo, Irus Braverman
Journal Articles
The last three decades have witnessed a dramatic shift in the governance of North American zoo animals. During this period, captive animal administration has transformed from a materially, geographically, and technologically limited enterprise - focused on the control of individual zoo animals within specific institutions - into an ambitious collective project that encompasses all accredited North American zoos and that governs more than a million zoo animals. Tapping into a sophisticated voluntary and collaborative self-monitored administration, zoos have been able to rely upon genetics and demography to achieve the ultimate goal of captive animal conservation. This essay frames this story …
Sp731-G Intercropping Legumes With Native Warm-Season Grasses For Livestock Forage Production In The Mid-South, Amanda Ashworth, Patrick Keyser, Fred Allen, Gary Bates, Craig Harper
Sp731-G Intercropping Legumes With Native Warm-Season Grasses For Livestock Forage Production In The Mid-South, Amanda Ashworth, Patrick Keyser, Fred Allen, Gary Bates, Craig Harper
Animals/Livestock
No abstract provided.
Sp731-F Competition Control In Native Warm-Season Grasses Grown For Livestock Forage In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Craig Harper, Gary Bates
Sp731-F Competition Control In Native Warm-Season Grasses Grown For Livestock Forage In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Craig Harper, Gary Bates
Animals/Livestock
No abstract provided.
Sp731-E Economic Implications For Growing Native Warm-Season Grasses For Forage In The Mid-South, Elizabeth Doxon, Patrick Keyser, Gary Bates, Craig Harper, John Waller
Sp731-E Economic Implications For Growing Native Warm-Season Grasses For Forage In The Mid-South, Elizabeth Doxon, Patrick Keyser, Gary Bates, Craig Harper, John Waller
Animals/Livestock
No abstract provided.
Sp731-D Producing Hay From Native Warm-Season Grasses In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Gary Bates, John Waller, Craig Harper, Fred Allen, Elizabeth Doxon
Sp731-D Producing Hay From Native Warm-Season Grasses In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Gary Bates, John Waller, Craig Harper, Fred Allen, Elizabeth Doxon
Animals/Livestock
No abstract provided.
Fecal Near Infrared Spectroscopy To Discriminate Physiological Status In Giant Pandas., Erin E. Wiedower, Andrew J. Kouba, Carrie K. Vance, Rachel L. Hansen, Jerry W. Stuth, Douglas R. Tolleson
Fecal Near Infrared Spectroscopy To Discriminate Physiological Status In Giant Pandas., Erin E. Wiedower, Andrew J. Kouba, Carrie K. Vance, Rachel L. Hansen, Jerry W. Stuth, Douglas R. Tolleson
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Publications and Scholarship
Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) monitoring and research often require accurate estimates of population size and density. However, obtaining these estimates has been challenging. Innovative technologies, such as fecal near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (FNIRS), may be used to differentiate between sex, age class, and reproductive status as has been shown for several other species. The objective of this study was to determine if FNIRS could be similarly used for giant panda physiological discriminations. Based on samples from captive animals in four U.S. zoos, FNIRS calibrations correctly identified 78% of samples from adult males, 81% from adult females, 85% from adults, 89% …
Sp731-C Grazing Native Warm-Season Grasses In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Gary Bates, John Waller, Craig Harper, Elizabeth Doxon
Sp731-C Grazing Native Warm-Season Grasses In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Gary Bates, John Waller, Craig Harper, Elizabeth Doxon
Animals/Livestock
No abstract provided.
Sp731-B Establishing Native Warm-Season Grasses For Livestock Forage In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Craig Harper, Gary Bates, John Waller, Elizabeth Doxon
Sp731-B Establishing Native Warm-Season Grasses For Livestock Forage In The Mid-South, Patrick Keyser, Craig Harper, Gary Bates, John Waller, Elizabeth Doxon
Animals/Livestock
No abstract provided.
Sp731-A Native Warm-Season Grasses For Mid-South Forage Production, Patrick Keyser, Craig Harper, Gary Bates, John Waller, Elizabeth Doxon
Sp731-A Native Warm-Season Grasses For Mid-South Forage Production, Patrick Keyser, Craig Harper, Gary Bates, John Waller, Elizabeth Doxon
Animals/Livestock
No abstract provided.
Creation Of A Natural History Information Database With Mobile Device Access For The Pace Campus In Pleasantville, Joshua J. Schwartz, Martina Blackwood
Creation Of A Natural History Information Database With Mobile Device Access For The Pace Campus In Pleasantville, Joshua J. Schwartz, Martina Blackwood
Cornerstone 3 Reports : Interdisciplinary Informatics
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Minimum Cost Of Transport In Asian Elephants: Do We Really Need A Bigger Elephant?, V. A. Langman, M. F. Rowe, T. J. Roberts, N. V. Langman, C. R. Taylor
Minimum Cost Of Transport In Asian Elephants: Do We Really Need A Bigger Elephant?, V. A. Langman, M. F. Rowe, T. J. Roberts, N. V. Langman, C. R. Taylor
Dartmouth Scholarship
Body mass is the primary determinant of an animal’s energy requirements. At their optimum walking speed, large animals have lower mass-specific energy requirements for locomotion than small ones. In animals ranging in size from 0.8 g (roach) to 260 kg (zebu steer), the minimum cost of transport (COTmin) decreases with increasing body size roughly as COTmin∝body mass (Mb)–0.316±0.023 (95% CI). Typically, the variation of COTmin with body mass is weaker at the intraspecific level as a result of physiological and geometric similarity within closely related species. The interspecific relationship estimates that …
Optimal Body Size With Respect To Maximal Speed For The Yellow-Spotted Monitor Lizard (Varanus Panoptes; Varanidae), Christofer J. Clemente, Philip C. Withers, Graham Thompson
Optimal Body Size With Respect To Maximal Speed For The Yellow-Spotted Monitor Lizard (Varanus Panoptes; Varanidae), Christofer J. Clemente, Philip C. Withers, Graham Thompson
Research outputs 2012
Studies of locomotor performance often link variation in morphology with ecology. While maximum sprint speed is a commonly used performance variable, the absolute limits for this performance trait are not completely understood. Absolute maximal speed has often been shown to increase linearly with body size, but several comparative studies covering a large range of body sizes suggest that maximal speed does not increase indefinitely with body mass but rather reaches an optimum after which speed declines. Because of the comparative nature of these studies, it is difficult to determine whether this decrease is due to biomechanical constraints on maximal speed …