NUTRITIONAL STRATEGIES IN MAMMALS EEOB 625 – 18 February 2004 ---------------------------------- -------------- Assigned Reading: Foods & Feeding, Chapter 6 from Feldhamer et al. (1999) available on Electronic Reserve (Instructions on Course Website)
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NUTRITIONAL STRATEGIES IN MAMMALS
EEOB 625 – 18 February 2004
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Assigned Reading: Foods & Feeding, Chapter 6 from Feldhamer et al. (1999) available on Electronic Reserve (Instructions on Course Website)
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Components of a Nutritional Strategy
• Strategy: A suite of adaptations providing a solution to a major “problem of existence”
1) nutrition, 2) survival, & 3)reproductionComponents of a Nutritional Strategy:
• Foraging and anti-predation behavior
• Feeding habits or diet
• Morphological & Physiological Adaptations
Feeding Habits of Mammals& their taxonomic distribution (Zoo 625)