Sheep recognize chewing easiness of grass leaves prior to prehension through sensing bending strength

摘要：

Grazing animals choose plant parts which can be eaten quickly with ease.Grazing animals usually remove only uppermost parts of plants because of different resistances to defoliation imposed by the physical structure of plant tissue.The objective of this study is to clarify the effect of bending and shearing strengths of orchardgrass leaves on foraging behavior and analyze biting forces and impulse created by sheep.

关键词： bending biting force impulse shearing sheep

作者: A.Hongo E.Devee M.Hirata J.Zhang J.Cheng

作者单位: Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine,Inada,Obihiro,Hokkaido,Japan 080-8555 NorthwestAgriculture and Forest University,Yangling,Shaanxi,China 712100.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）