Feeding circuit development and early-life influences on future feeding behaviour

Social influences on the development of ringtailed lemur feeding ecology

a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, República de Panamá b School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A. Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department of Migration and Immuno-Ecology, Radolfzell, Germany CIRCLE, Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York, U.K. e Flamingo Land Ltd, Kirby Misperton, Malton, Nor...

Early Infant Feeding Influences and Weight of Children

The effect of early post cesarean feeding on wound healing

Introduction: wound complication is a main problem after cesarean section. Insufficient nutrition delay wound healing because decrease saved energy of body and provide conditions of infection. If nutrition be enough and suitable, body receive most of material and wound healing happen soon. There are a few papers about this problem and they have reported different results. So the aim of this pap...

Feeding behaviour in rabbits

As a monogastric herbivore, the rabbit presents a unique feeding behaviour compared to other domestic animals, since he belongs to the Lagomorpha order (Leporidae family: rabbits and hares, Grassé and Dekeuser, 1955), and consequently possess a main specificity that is the caecotrophy. For recall (see details in chapter 1), the caecotrophy is a complete behaviour involving an excretion and an i...

Milk feeding, solid feeding and obesity risk: a review of the relationships between early life feeding practices and later adiposity

Childhood obesity is a major health issue with associated ill-health consequences during childhood and into later adolescence and adulthood. Given that eating behaviours are formed during early childhood, it is important to evaluate the relationships between early life feeding practices and later child adiposity. This review describes and evaluates recent literature exploring associations betwe...