"Environmental Aspects of Animal Care" is a revision and updating of "Environmental Management of Animal Agriculture" (1983). This edition expands the treatment of agricultural animals to include their handling, transportation and market/slaughter settings. Also new to this edition is the discussion of companion and recreational species in production and use settings, as well as various species in biomedical-research and zoo settings. Eleven contributors join editor Stanley E. Curtis for this edition.
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978-0-8138-2790-2 (9780813827902)
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Environmental stress and husbandry; Homeothermy; Thermoregulation; Energetics; Reproduction under thermal stress; Prescribed ranges of effective environmental temperature; Rhythms and photoperiodisms; Light and reproduction; Other effects of electromagnetic waves; Behavioural responses to internal and external cues; Maintenance behaviour; Social behaviour; Anomalous behaviour; Behavioural management; Stress and health; Environment and challenges to health; Environment and defenses of health; Facilities and equipment - approaches, alternatives and design; Climatic and psychrometric data and calculations; Sheltering; Housing; Evaluating animal environments.
