Environment/Food Safety/Behavior

Question 1

What is the best way to feed everyone?

Answer 1

Use the land we have more efficiently, produce safe technology to increase utilization

Question 2

What are recombinant growth hormones?

Answer 2

Come from pituitary gland, retention of protein in the cell

Question 3

What organ produces increased levels of IGF when stimulated by rBST?

Answer 3

Liver

Question 4

What meat has the highest incidence of antibiotic residue?

Answer 4

Veal

Question 5

What is the intensive management system?

Answer 5

Confinement or highly controlled

Question 6

What is the extensive management system?

Answer 6

Less environmental control

Question 7

What is convection?

Answer 7

Wind, picking up heat and losing heat

Question 8

What is evaporation?

Answer 8

Rain and humidity, lowers heat, strong effective way to remove heat, critical piece in cooling

Question 9

What is conduction?

Answer 9

Movement of heat based on surfaces touched

Question 10

(def) Range of temperatures where heat produced and heat loss from the body are about the same

Answer 10

Termouetral zone (TNZ)

Question 11

(T/F) Fleece in sheep can dramatically change LCT (lower critical temp)

Answer 11

True

Question 12

(T/F) Neutral zone doesn’t mean they have to stay there, just means they aren’t using any energy

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What is one of the biggest tools in managing heat?

Answer 13

Food

Question 14

_______ cows tolerate heat better but cold worse (smaller or bigger)

Answer 14

Smaller

Question 15

__________ cattle and pigs is the most effective in keeping animals cool

Answer 15

Evaporating/spraying

Question 16

Temperatures below TNZ cause…

Answer 16

An increase in intake and reduced blood flow

Question 17

Temperatures above TNZ cause…

Answer 17

A decrease in intake, feed conversion reproductive performance, and physical activity
Animal is above its LCT

Question 18

(def) The reaction of an animal to a certain stimulus or how it reacts to its environment

Answer 18

Behavior

Question 19

What are internal and external factors for behavior?

Answer 19

I: heredity, genetic makeup
E: learning experiences

Question 20

(def) Learning to respond without thinking (racehorse running when gate opens)

Answer 20

Habituation

Question 21

(def) Learning to respond in a certain way to stimulus with reinforcement (cutting horse responds to animal)

Answer 21

Conditioning

Question 22

(def) Respond correctly to stimulus the first time it’s presented, ability to learn

Answer 22

Reasoning

Question 23

(def) Receive reward or punishment, electric fence

Answer 23

Trial and error operant conditioning

Question 24

(def) Adopting a moving object as a parent when none is present, puppy will think its a sheep if it grew up with sheep

Answer 24

Imprinting

Question 25

What animals are at the bottom of the social order?

Answer 25

Small, young animals, they get less access to feed when they are the ones that really need it

Question 26

(T/F) Dominant animal has more access to females, sires more calves, dominance can change every year

Answer 26

True

Question 27

What is allelomimetic behavior?

Answer 27

Following someone else, "doing the same thing"

Question 28

What is agonistic behavior?

Answer 28

Fighting, different animals have different ways of fighting

Question 29

(def) The belief that animals have certain rights, including the right to life

Answer 29

Animal rights

Question 30

(def) Animals exist for use by humans

Answer 30

Animal exploitation

Question 31

(def) Animals should not be forced to work or produce for human benefit

Answer 31

Animal liberation

Question 32

What are the main concerns of animal welfare advocates?

Answer 32

Branding, dehorning, slaughtering, castration, feedlots, transportation