Feeding / Ingestive Behavior Flashcards

1
Q

Most domestic animals are stimulated to eat due to

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Social facilitation

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2
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Taste preference of dogs

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Canned or semi moist food
Prefer cooked meat
High-protein meat

Odor is important in detecting preferred food

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3
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At what situation does the food intake of dogs increase

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In the presence of other dog

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4
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Other factors affecting feed intake of dogs 6

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Environmental temperature
GIT factors
Estrogen level
Glucoprivic eating
Diluted diet
Decrease or increase of body weight

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5
Q

Clinical problems in dogs

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Obesity
Anorexia
Pica
Grass eating
Coprophagia

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6
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compensatory behavior in animals aimed at restoring blood glucose levels during conditions of low glucose availability

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Glucoprivic eating

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7
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Cause by intake energy exceeds the output of energy; often seen in non-working animals Fed a highly palatable diet

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Obesity

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8
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Loss of appetite

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Anorexia

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9
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Eating non-food materials; it can be due to nutritional deficiency or extreme form of oral exploration

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Pica

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10
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Is a means of obtaining roughage, provision of an emetic

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Grass eating

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11
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Eating of feces

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Coprophagia

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12
Q

A feral cat with good hunting skills might easily catch ___ mice or ___ rats per day

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12, 3

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13
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Social facilitation of cats

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Cats do not increase food intake when housed in groups
Sometimes they do need their owners presence

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14
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Palatability in cats

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  1. Cats are notoriously finicky
  2. They do not prefer sucrose
  3. Cats will not eat diets containing medium chain triglycerides or hydrogenated coconut oil
  4. Cats do not respond to glucoprivation
  5. Cats prefer fish, novel diets
  6. The presence of lingual lipase can break the triglycerides down to fatty acids in their mouth providing bitter taste
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15
Q

Cats drinking milk show- –

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Decline in brain temperature and cease to eat

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16
Q

Show a decline in brain temperature and cease to eat

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Cats drinking milk

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17
Q

Suppresses feeding in cats

A

Glucoreceptors

18
Q

Where are glucoreceptors present

A

Liver

19
Q

Suppresses food intake of cats

A

CCK - pancreozymin and bombesin

20
Q

Hormone that increase cat’s food intake

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Progestins

21
Q

Cats that have lower metabolic rate

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Ovariohysterectomized and castrated cats

22
Q

What happens when cat’s food is diluted with water

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Cats increase the volume of intake and maintaining caloric intake constant

23
Q

Meal pattern of pig

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  • most feeding take place during the day
  • circadian rhythm feeding behavior
  • reduced feeding in high temperature; eats early in the morning or late in the evening
  • Eat 8-12 meals/day; meals decrease as pig grow larger
  • when housed in groups, pigs tend to eat at separate times
  • individually housed pigs tend to eat at the same time
24
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Palatability of pigs

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  • Prefers sweet substances consuming up to 17L of sucrose per day
  • Intake and weight gain aren’t affected by bitter taste
  • sows avoid blue food
  • Newly weaned pigs show a drop in weight gain
  • pigs learn to associate a given flavor with a familiar feed
25
Q

Animals eat to _____ and stop eating to prevent _____

A

Keep warm, hyperthermia

26
Q

Function of cholecystokinin -pancreozymin (CCK)

A
  • Stimulates contraction of gall bladder
  • stimulates release of pancreatic enzyme
  • inhibit food intake in hungry animal
  • acts on stomach by slowing gastric emptying to produce satiety feeling
27
Q

Found peripherally in the GIT as well as brain stem

A

CCK-A

28
Q

An emergency mechanism the animal uses when its endogenous energy supply is approaching exhaustion

A

Glucoprivation

29
Q

Chew rate of grazing horse

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30 to 50 bites/min for 8-12h/d

30
Q

Ingestive social facilitation of horse

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  • Horse eat more in groups
  • horse prefer to eat from the floor and shallow buckets; enables them to see all direction between their legs
31
Q

Palatability of house

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  • Strong preference for sucrose but no preference for sour, bitter, or even salt solution
  • grazing behavior is selective
32
Q

What is the first sign of colic in horses

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Anorexia

33
Q

Abdominal pain in horses

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Colic

34
Q

Stimulates food intake in horses

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Diazepam and promazine

35
Q

Clinical problems in horses

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  1. Cribbing
  2. Aerophagia or wind sucking
  3. Wood chewing
36
Q

Oral behavior in which horses grasps a horizontal surface such as the rim of a bucket or the rail of a fence with its incisors, flexes its neck, aspirates air into its pharynx

A

Cribbing

37
Q

Horse aspirate air without grasping an object

A

Aerophagia or wind sucking

38
Q

Ingestion of wood; this can be due to high roughage in the diet, use of high concentration diet (horse)

A

Wood chewing

39
Q

found in the brain and mediate panic behavior

A

CCK-B

40
Q

Stimulates contraction of gall bladder

A

CCK - pancreozymin

41
Q

Inhibit food intake of hungry animals

A

CCK - pancreozymin

42
Q

Stimulates release of pancreatic enzyme

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CCK - pancreozymin