this study was conducted to investigate the effects of l-carnitine and different levels of animal fat on performance, carcass characteristics and some blood parameters of broiler chickens. two hundred one-day old male broiler chicks were allotted to5 treatments in 4 replicates and 10 birds in each replicate. dietary treatments consisted of: 1) diet with 5% vegetable oil (t1), 2) diet with 5% ve...

introduction: rabies is one of the most important infectious diseases and animal bites are increasing in iran. due to the significance of the subject, the current study was designed and conducted with the aim of determining animal bite status and its contributors in aq-qala district, golestan province, iran. materials and methods: this is a data-based study with descriptive approach carried out...

epidemiological features of some of several foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl), such as bushehr province, had not been detected in iran. this study was carried out for detection and characterization of epidemiological features of cl in these regions, from oct. 1998 to oct. 1999. all of the primary school children aged 7-14 years and total populations of 14 villages were examined for the prese...

abstract unbalance using of chemical fertilizers cause decline the soil quality and fertility, environmental pollution and specially soil and water resources pollution. the use of animal manure is a replacement to chemical fertilizers. therefore, recognizing of demographic, technical-extensional and agronomic affect on farmer's decision making process to use of animal manure will have important...

5aAB1. A comparison of acoustic and visual metrics of sperm whale longline depredation. Aaron Thode (SIO, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., MC 0238, La Jolla, CA 92093-0238, [email protected]), Lauren Wild (Sitka Sound Sci. Ctr., Sitka, AK), Delphine Mathias (GIPSA Lab., Grenoble INP, St. Martin d’Hères, France), Janice Straley (Univ. of Alaska Southeast, Sitka, AK), and Chris Lunsford (Auke Bay Labs., NOAA...

Do non-human animals have rights? The answer to this question depends on whether animals have morally relevant mental properties. Mindreading is the human activity of ascribing mental states to other organisms. Current knowledge about the evolution and cognitive structure of mindreading indicates that human ascriptions of mental states to non-human animals are very inaccurate. The accuracy of h...

The study of animal personality has attracted considerable attention, as it has revealed a number of similarities in personality between humans and several nonhuman species. At the same time the adaptive value and evolutionary maintenance of different personalities are the subject of debate. Since Pavlov’s work on dogs, students of comparative cognition have been aware that animals display vast...