Techniques for Measuring Animal Physiological and Behavioral Responses with Respect to the Environment

摘要：

　　Environmental effects cause animal production inefficiencies and animal well-being issues.Thus, many experiments have been designed to understand thermal stress and to test different means to relieve it.There are multiple physiological responses and behavior/activities that can be measured to discern the level of response to environmental stressors.Additionally, choices of instrumentation and interpretation of the responses are dependent on understanding the heat balance of a homeotherm.This paper investigates the current understanding of heat balance concepts for livestock, and reviews various methods of measuring common physiological measurements (body temperature, respiration rate, and surface temperatures) are included as well as behavioral and activity level measurement methods.

关键词： Behavior body temperature image analysis respiration rate thermal images

作者: Tami M.Brown-Brandl

作者单位: USDA Agricultural Research Service US Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 68933, USA

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 2015 International Symposium on Animal Environment and Welfare(动物环境和福利国际研讨会)

会议地点: 重庆

会议语种:英文

页码: 223-232

在线出版日期: 2015-10-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）