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• Disc 1. Episode 1: Blood memory
• Disc 2. Episode 2: Into the storm.

The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world--and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.

• Part 1: The Trail to Extinction
• The Buffalo and the People
• Strangers
• Omen in the Skies
• The Iron Horse
• Kills Tomorrow
• Part 2: Back From the Brink
• A Death Wind for My People
• Just in the Nick of Time
• Changes of Heart
• Ghosts
• The Last Refuge
• Blood Memory
• Big Medicine.

"The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different-and sometimes competing-impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era-a story of America at its very best and worst"-- Provided by publisher.

• Building Fence: Constructing the Parameters of This Project
• Hunters and Highways: The Postwar Context of Ranchers' Lives, 1935-1965
• "Be Shure to Fix the Fence": The Social World of Mechanizing Cow Work
• "I Am the Grass. Let Me Work.": The Ecological Economy of Range Cattle Ranchers
• Protecting the Herd: Cows' Bodies and the Body Politic
• Beef Fudge: The Market as a Unifying Practice in Ranch Culture
• Branding the Past: Collective Memory as Cohesive Agent
• The Salt Lick: Intentionally Gathering the Cattle Community
• Epilogue Shutting the Gate: Concluding Thoughts

"A history of ranching in the U.S. from 1945 to 1965 showing how the issues and hardships faced by cattle ranchers brought about a new ranching culture in the Mountain West through the use of a language-"Cow Talk"-that allowed ranchers to maintain a sense of community and identity as leverage against the efforts of government agents and other perceived enemies"-- Provided by publisher

• Intro
• Contents
• Yeast as a Source of Exogenous Enzymes in Ruminant Feeding
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Composition of Yeast Culture
• 3 Yeasts as a Source of Exogenous Enzymes
• 4 Production of Enzymes from Yeast
• 5 Yeast Enzymes and Feed Utilization
• 5.1 Dietary Fibre Utilization
• 5.2 Ruminal Fermentation Characteristics
• 5.3 Microbial Protein Synthesis
• 5.4 Milk Production, Composition and Quality
• 5.5 Growth Performance
• 5.6 Meat Quality
• 6 Source of Dietary Lipid/Microbial Lipid
• 7 Means of Counteracting the Negative Effects of Mycotoxins
• 8 Conclusions
• References

• Yeast Culture and Direct-Fed Microbes: Modes of Action and Beneficial Applications in Ruminants
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Mechanism of Action of Yeast Culture and Direct-Fed Microbes
• 2.1 Mechanism of Action of Yeast Culture
• 2.2 Mechanism of Action of Direct-Fed Microbes
• 3 Beneficial Applications of Yeast Culture and Direct-Fed Microbes
• 3.1 Effects of Yeast Culture and Direct-Fed Microbes on Animal Performance
• 3.1.1 Effect on Growth
• 3.1.2 Effect on Intake and Lactation Yield
• 3.2 Effects on Rumen Fermentation
• 3.2.1 Effects of YC
• 3.2.2 Effects of DFM

• 3.3 Effects on Rumen Microbiota
• 3.3.1 Effects of YC
• 3.3.2 Effects of DFMs
• 3.4 Beneficial Effects of Yeast Culture and Direct-Fed Microbes on Host Immunomodulation
• 3.4.1 Effects of YC
• 3.4.2 Effects of DFMs
• 4 Conclusion and Prospects
• References
• Effects of Exogenous Enzymes on the Nutritive Value of Some Fibrous Forage in Ruminant
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Definition of Exogenous Enzymes
• 3 Sources of Exogenous Enzymes
• 4 Roles of Exogenous Enzymes in Improving Nutritive Value of Animal Feeds
• 5 Impact of Exogenous Enzymes
• 5.1 Fermentation of Fibrous Feeds

• 5.2 Nutrient Digestibility
• 5.3 Ruminal Degradability and Gas Production
• 5.4 Nitrogen Balance and Microbial Protein Synthesis
• 5.5 Milk Production, Composition and Quality
• 5.6 Growth Performance and Meat Quality
• 6 Conclusions
• References
• Exogenous Fibrolytic Enzymes: For the Better Utilization of Guinea Grass and Rice Straw as Ruminant Feeds
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Material and Methods
• 2.1 Location and Ethical Approval of Experiments
• 2.2 Animals, Management and Enzyme Treatment
• 2.2.1 Experiment 1
• 2.2.2 Experiment 2

• 2.3 Experimental Procedure, Measurements and Sampling
• 2.4 Laboratory Analyses
• 2.5 Calculations and Statistical Analysis
• 3 Results
• 3.1 Experiment 1
• 3.2 Experiment 2
• 4 Discussion
• 4.1 Experiment 1
• 4.2 Experiment 2
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• Role of Exogenous Enzymes in Feed Digestibility and Reducing the Emission Intensity of Enteric Methane Production in Ruminants
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Poor-quality Roughage and its Degradation by Ruminants
• 3 Treatment of Poor-Quality Roughages
• 3.1 Exogenous Fibrolytic Enzymes

This book addresses a global issue of increasing high quality food from ruminant animals while reducing their impacts on the environment. However, one of the main constraints to livestock development and the underlying cause of the low productivity in many developing countries is inadequate nutrition associated with inefficient utilization of forages and fibrous feed resources. In many countries, fibrous feed makes up the bulk of available feed resource base, which is characterized by scarcity and fluctuating supply in the quantity and quality of feed resources, nutrient imbalance as seen in many native pastures, grasslands and crop residues-based feeding systems with limited use of commercial concentrate feeds such as soybean, cottonseed and groundnut meals, etc. Furthermore, the production of methane, an important greenhouse gas (GHG), from ruminants fed highly fibrous diets such as straws and stover is higher than those animals fed better quality forages or concentrate diets. Recent research shows that supplementing livestock diets with exogenous fibre degrading enzymes can improve feed utilization by enhancing intake, fibre degradation in the rumen and overall digestibility of fibrous feeds which in turn leads to improved animal performance, farmers income, and a reduction in GHG emissions. The book editors would like to acknowledge the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture for funding part of the studies that make up some of these chapters and were part of the final reports of a coordinated research project financed by IAEA

The experience of seeing a fish swimming in a glass tank is one we take for granted now but in Victorian England this was a remarkable sight. People had simply not been able to see fish as they now could with the invention of the aquarium and everything that went with it. Goldfish in the Parlour looks at the boom in the building of public aquariums, as well as the craze for home aquariums and visiting the seaside, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Furthermore, this book considers how people see and meet animals and, importantly, in what institutions and in what contexts these encounters happen

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Physiology and Functional Anatomy
• Chapter 3. Sensory Systems
• Chapter 4. Biology of Stress
• Chapter 5. Normal Behaviour
• Chapter 6. Social Behaviour as a Challenge for Welfare
• Chapter 7. Brains, Behaviour, and Cognition: Multiple Misconceptions
• Chapter 8. Psychological and Behavioural Principles and Problems
• Chapter 9. Effects of Ontogeny, Rearing Conditions, and Individual Differences on Behaviour: Welfare, Conservation, and Invasive Species Implications
• Chapter 10. Controlled Deprivation and Enrichment
• Chapter 11. Effects of Noise and Light
• Chapter 12. Ethologically Informed Design and DEEP Ethology in Theory and Practice
• Chapter 13. Spatial and Thermal Factors
• Chapter 14. Nutritional Considerations
• Chapter 15. Naturalistic Versus Unnaturalistic Environments
• Chapter 16. Evidential Thresholds for Species Suitability in Captivity
• Chapter 17. Record Keeping as an Aid to Captive Care
• Chapter 18. Arbitrary Husbandry Practices and Misconceptions
• Chapter 19. Miscellaneous Factors.

This extensively revised and expanded new edition offers concepts, principles and applied information that relates to the wellbeing of reptiles. As a manual on health and welfare in a similar vein to volumes addressing the sciences of anatomy, behaviour or psychology, this book thoroughly examines the biology of reptile welfare and is about meeting biological needs. The editors, acknowledged experts in their own right, have once again drawn together an extremely impressive international group of contributors. Positive and negative implications of general husbandry and research programs are discussed. In addition to greatly revised original content are nine new chapters offering readers novel insight into: * sensory systems * social behaviour * brain and cognition * controlled deprivation and enrichment * effects of captivity-imposed noise and light disturbance on welfare * spatial and thermal factors* evidential thresholds for species suitability in captivity * record keeping as an aid to captive care * arbitrary husbandry practices and misconceptions The authors have adopted a user-friendly writing style to accommodate a broad readership. Although primarily aimed at academic professionals, this comprehensive volume is fundamentally a biology book that will also inform all involved in captive reptile husbandry. Among others, zoo personnel, herpetologists, veterinarians, lab animal scientists, and expert readers in animal welfare and behavioural studies will benefit from this updated work. .
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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. "Reputable and Entitled to Credit"
• Chapter 2. "He Had Famous Flyers to Ride Then"
• Chapter 3. "I Ride to Win"
• Chapter 4. "The Wrong This Day Done"
• Chapter 5. Afterlives
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index
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• D
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• F
• G
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• Series Foreword: Oceans in Depth Preface
• 1. Aquarium Craft: Replicating Oceans under Glass
• 2. Photography Tanks: Viewing Oceans under Glass
• 3. Kreisel Tanks: Crafting Movement under Glass
• 4. Reef Tanks: Building Ecosystems under Glass
• 5. Breeding Tank Systems: Closing the Cycle under Glass Conclusion: "You Are the Ocean": Scaling Up Oceans under Glass Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index.
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A welcome dive into the world of aquarium craft that offers much-needed knowledge about undersea environments. Atlantic coral is rapidly disappearing in the wild. To save the species, they will have to be reproduced quickly in captivity, and so for the last decade conservationists have been at work trying to preserve their lingering numbers and figure out how to rebuild once-thriving coral reefs from a few survivors. Captive environments, built in dedicated aquariums, offer some hope for these corals. This book examines these specialized tanks, charting the development of tank craft throughout the twentieth century to better understand how aquarium modeling has enhanced our knowledge of the marine environment. Aquariums are essential to the way we understand the ocean. Used to investigate an array of scientific questions, from animal behavior to cancer research and climate change, they are a crucial factor in the fight to mitigate the climate disaster already threatening our seas. To understand the historical development of this scientific tool and the groups that have contributed to our knowledge about the ocean, Samantha Muka takes up specialty systems-including photographic aquariums, kriesel tanks (for jellyfish), and hatching systems-to examine the creation of ocean simulations and their effect on our interactions with underwater life. Lively and engaging, Oceans under Glass offers a fresh history about how the aquarium has been used in modern marine biology and how integral it is to knowing the marine world.
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• Chapter 1. Putting Smart into Nutrition
• Chapter 2. Matching Feed Characteristics to Animal Requirements Through Plant Breeding
• Chapter 3. Circular Feed Production and Consumption in The Context Of Smart Animal Nutrition
• Chapter 4. Assessment of The Nutritive Value of Individual Feeds and Diets by Novel Technologies
• Chapter 5. Large Scale Phenotyping and Genotyping: State of The Art and Emerging Challenges
• Chapter 6. Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to The Challenge of Forecasting Animal Performance for The Purposes of Precision Livestock Feeding
• Chapter 7. Smart Pig Nutrition in the Digital Era
• Chapter 8. Smart Poultry Nutrition
• Chapter 9. Advanced Technology in Aquaculture Smart Feeding in Marine Fish Farms
• 10. Smart Nutrition of Extensively Kept Ruminants
• Chapter 11. The Potential Contribution of Smart Animal Nutrition in Reducing The Environmental Impacts of Livestock Systems.

This book highlights the latest findings and techniques related to nutrition and feed efficiency in animal agriculture. It addresses the key challenges facing the nutrition industry to achieve high animal productivity with minimal environmental impact. The concept of smart nutrition involves the use of smart technologies in the feeding and management of livestock. The first chapters focus on advances in biological fields such as molecular agriculture and genotype selection, as well as technologies that enhance or enable the collection of relevant information. The next section highlights applications of smart nutrition in a variety of livestock systems, ranging from intensive indoor housing of broilers and pigs to extensive outdoor housing of cattle and sheep, and marine fish farms. Finally, because of the worldwide attention to this issue, the authors address the environmental consequences. This work, which takes a serious look at how nutrition can be used to improve sustainability in animal agriculture, is a key literature for readers in animal and veterinary sciences, the food industry, sustainability research, and agricultural engineering.

• Contributors ix Preface xiii Editor xv Part I Fundamental Nutrition
• Chapter 1 Water in Swine Nutrition 3 John F. Patience
• Chapter 2 Energy and Energy Metabolism in Swine 23 Jean Noblet and Jaap Van Milgen
• Chapter 3 Lipids and Lipid Utilization in Swine 59 Xi Lin, Mike Azain, and Jack Odle
• Chapter 4 Amino Acids and Amino Acid Utilization in Swine 81 Nathalie L. Trottier and Rodrigo Manjar'yn
• Chapter 5 Carbohydrates and Carbohydrate Utilization in Swine 109 Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Helle Nygaard Laerke, and Henry Jorgensen
• Chapter 6 Vitamins and Vitamin Utilization in Swine 139 J. Jacques Matte and Charlotte Lauridsen
• Chapter 7 Minerals and Mineral Utilization in Swine 173 Gretchen M. Hill
• Chapter 8 Nutrition and Gut Health in Swine 197 Benjamin P. Willing, Gita Malik, and Andrew G. Van Kessel Part II Nutrition for Successful and Sustainable Swine Production
• Chapter 9 Diet Formulation and Feeding Programs 217 Sung Woo Kim and Jeffrey A. Hansen
• Chapter 10 Alternative Feedstuffs in Swine Diets 229 Ruurd T. Zijlstra and Eduardo Beltranena
• Chapter 11 Fiber in Swine Nutrition 255 Pedro E. Urriola, Sarah K. Cervantes-Pahm, and Hans H. Stein
• Chapter 12 Enzymes and Enzyme Supplementation of Swine Diets 277 Oluyinka A. Olukosi and Olayiwola Adeola
• Chapter 13 Feed Additives in Swine Diets 295 Gary L. Cromwell
• Chapter 14 Bioavailability of Amino Acids, Lipids, and Carbohydrates in Feedstuffs 317 Dong Y. Kil, Sarah K. Cervantes-Pahm, and Hans H. Stein
• Chapter 15 Bioavailability of Minerals and Vitamins in Feedstuffs 341 David H. Baker and Hans H. Stein
• Chapter 16 Swine Nutrition and Environment 365 Ming Z. Fan
• Chapter 17 Swine Nutrition and Pork Quality 413 Jason K. Apple
• Chapter 18 Feeding Growing and Breeding Swine 439 Lee J. Johnston, Mark H. Whitney, Samuel K. Baidoo, and Joshua A. Jendza Index 465.
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Finding sustainable means of swine nutrition is important to both pork industry personnel and the environment alike. This reference comprehensively covers the most recent advancements in sustainability that results in more efficient diets, thus reducing both production costs and waste. Chapters include information on alternative feedstuffs, feed additives, bioavailabity of nutrients, and management of wastes and odors. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, Sustainable Swine Nutrition will be a valuable reference for those involved in all aspects of pork production. * Comprehensively covers the most recent advancements in sustainability to promote reduced pork production costs and waste * Covers recent topics such as alternative feedstuffs, feed additives, and bioavalability * Discusses environmental topics such as waste and odor management * Written by an international team of experts in the field.
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• Introduction : we dog
• The difficulty of being a (pet) dog
• Human-dog relations
• Care and constraint
• Landscapes of fear, landscapes of pleasure
• Technologies of control
• Training dogs to be good
• Bad dog and behavioral "problems"
• Dwelling in possibility.