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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"diet preference"”.
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Habitat use and diet preference of extralimital giraffes in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
… the relative abundance of giraffe; their diet preference and the potential reasons for this preference. Using both spoor and dung counts as indicators of giraffe presence, transects were carried out over approximately 20 km of the Auob River. Percentage occurrence was plotted onto a map of …
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Sex differences in exercise-mediated changes in diet preference and its associated cognitive and metabolic outcomes
… Moreover, how factors including diet, cognition, and peripheral metabolic function interact to potentially perpetuate the viscous feedback loop of maladaptive eating behavior and obesity in a sex-specific fashion is poorly understood. The goal of this dissertation was to …
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Regulation of Energy Balance by Dietary Protein
… a lesser calorie intake. However, the effects of dietary protein on energy expenditure and the underlying mechanisms are not well-established. Moreover, the domestic cat has potential to more closely model human obesity and diabetes; however, the role of dietary protein in the secretion of …
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Ovarian hormones, but not androgens, mediate running-induced changes in high fat diet choice patterns in rats
… of a healthy body weight and mediate changes in dietary selection. Past studies using a two-diet choice (chow vs. HF) and voluntary wheel running paradigm found that upon simultaneous introduction of a novel HF diet and wheel running, male rats show complete and persistent HF diet avoidance …
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Feed intake in chickens: genetic and social factors
… ingestive behaviors, growth, livability, and dietary self-selection were investigated in three experiments. In Experiment I, ingestive behaviors, livability, and body weight were measured in lines of White Plymouth Rock chickens selected for high (HW) and low (LW) juvenile body weight reared …
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Assessment of bird diversity, feeding guild and avitourism potential in Pulau Tinggi Marine Park, Mersing, Johor, Malaysia.
… correlation between bill size and food size/diet preference (R=0.623, p=0.01). For avitourism prospect, six birding hotspots representing different macrohabitats were identified. Each macrohabitat supports different bird composition which highly influenced by different vegetation and food …