Feeding Behavior (exam 2)

Question 1

Foraging

Answer 1

behavior of animals when they are moving in a way that they are likely to encounter and acquire food for themselves or their offspring

Question 2

Hunger System

Answer 2

Perceptual mechanisms
Central Hunger mechanisms
Motor mechanisms

Question 3

Perceptual mechanisms

Answer 3

recognizing food

Question 4

Central Hunger Mechanisms

Answer 4

integrating casual factors for eating and coordinating necessary movements

Question 5

Motor mechanisms

Answer 5

locating and ingesting food

Question 6

Appetite

Answer 6

desire to eat food

Question 7

Hunger

Answer 7

Physical need to eat food

Question 8

Anorexia

Answer 8

decreased desire to eat

Question 9

Orexia

Answer 9

increased desire to eat

Question 10

Poyphagia

Answer 10

increase in eating

Question 11

Feeding behavior is strongly influenced by ____.

Answer 11

positive and negative reinforcement

Question 12

Duration of grazing is influenced by ____ ____ and ____.

Answer 12

Food Quality

Availability

Question 13

Most active grazing season coincides with ___.

Answer 13

Spring

Question 14

Night grazing occurs during:

Answer 14

very hot weather

like during summer

Question 15

Cold and wet weather can ___ grazing.

Answer 15

reduce

Question 16

Horses spend most of their time grazing during ___.

Answer 16

Winter

Question 17

Grazing activities of milking cows are synchronized around _____ times.

Answer 17

Milking

Question 18

Regurgitation

Answer 18

reverse peristalsis carries food to mouth

Question 19

Re-mastication

Answer 19

liquid squeezed from bouls/swallowed and bolus chewed

Question 20

Reinsalivation

Answer 20

Addition of more saliva

Question 21

Redeglutition

Answer 21

swallowing the bolus and liquid

Question 22

When animals are born it is important for it to obtain ____ from ____.

Answer 22

colostrum

mother

Question 23

Goat choose to browse on what types of areas?

Answer 23

Shrubby Herbage

Question 24

Cattle, sheep, and horses will graze on ____ ____.

Answer 24

Pasture Plants

Question 25

How do cattle graze?

Answer 25

• Encircle grass with tongue & draw into mouth
• Lower teeth & tongue hold bound grass
• Grass is broken by a head movement
• Chews only 2-3 times before swallowing

Question 26

How do sheep graze?

Answer 26

• Divided upper lip enables selecting small plant parts & graze deeper
• Grasses grasped between lower teeth & dental pad
• Grass torn when head is moved posteriorly with sudden jerking movement

Question 27

How do horses graze?

Answer 27

• Collect grass with prehensile upper lip
• Bite grass off near ground with front teeth
• Usually take 2 mouthfuls before moving ahead slowly with 1 leg at a time

Question 28

Grazers must assess the herbage and decide whether to:

Answer 28

• Lower the head & take a bite
• How large a bite to take
• At what rate to bite
• Whether to stop biting & chew
• To swing the head to one side
• To take one or more steps forward
• To raise the head & carry out some other behavior
• When to start grazing

Question 29

Synchronized grazing may occur in response to ___ ___, such as ___, ____, ____, _____ _____, & ___ ____.

Answer 29

environmental cues

• dawn
• dusk
• rain
• management methods
• social factors

Question 30

Sheep, goats, or cattle on ___ pasture often have to use considerable amounts of ____ searching for plant material worth harvesting.

Answer 30

sparse

energy