Feeding / Ingestive Behavior

Question 1

Most domestic animals are stimulated to eat due to

Answer 1

Social facilitation

Question 2

Taste preference of dogs

Answer 2

Canned or semi moist food
Prefer cooked meat
High-protein meat

Odor is important in detecting preferred food

Question 3

At what situation does the food intake of dogs increase

Answer 3

In the presence of other dog

Question 4

Other factors affecting feed intake of dogs 6

Answer 4

Environmental temperature
GIT factors
Estrogen level
Glucoprivic eating
Diluted diet
Decrease or increase of body weight

Question 5

Clinical problems in dogs

Answer 5

Obesity
Anorexia
Pica
Grass eating
Coprophagia

Question 6

compensatory behavior in animals aimed at restoring blood glucose levels during conditions of low glucose availability

Answer 6

Glucoprivic eating

Question 7

Cause by intake energy exceeds the output of energy; often seen in non-working animals Fed a highly palatable diet

Answer 7

Obesity

Question 8

Loss of appetite

Answer 8

Anorexia

Question 9

Eating non-food materials; it can be due to nutritional deficiency or extreme form of oral exploration

Answer 9

Pica

Question 10

Is a means of obtaining roughage, provision of an emetic

Answer 10

Grass eating

Question 11

Eating of feces

Answer 11

Coprophagia

Question 12

A feral cat with good hunting skills might easily catch ___ mice or ___ rats per day

Answer 12

12, 3

Question 13

Social facilitation of cats

Answer 13

Cats do not increase food intake when housed in groups
Sometimes they do need their owners presence

Question 14

Palatability in cats

Answer 14

1. Cats are notoriously finicky
2. They do not prefer sucrose
3. Cats will not eat diets containing medium chain triglycerides or hydrogenated coconut oil
4. Cats do not respond to glucoprivation
5. Cats prefer fish, novel diets
6. The presence of lingual lipase can break the triglycerides down to fatty acids in their mouth providing bitter taste

Question 15

Cats drinking milk show- –

Answer 15

Decline in brain temperature and cease to eat

Question 16

Show a decline in brain temperature and cease to eat

Answer 16

Cats drinking milk

Question 17

Suppresses feeding in cats

Answer 17

Glucoreceptors

Question 18

Where are glucoreceptors present

Answer 18

Liver

Question 19

Suppresses food intake of cats

Answer 19

CCK - pancreozymin and bombesin

Question 20

Hormone that increase cat’s food intake

Answer 20

Progestins

Question 21

Cats that have lower metabolic rate

Answer 21

Ovariohysterectomized and castrated cats

Question 22

What happens when cat’s food is diluted with water

Answer 22

Cats increase the volume of intake and maintaining caloric intake constant

Question 23

Meal pattern of pig

Answer 23

• most feeding take place during the day
• circadian rhythm feeding behavior
• reduced feeding in high temperature; eats early in the morning or late in the evening
• Eat 8-12 meals/day; meals decrease as pig grow larger
• when housed in groups, pigs tend to eat at separate times
• individually housed pigs tend to eat at the same time

Question 24

Palatability of pigs

Answer 24

• Prefers sweet substances consuming up to 17L of sucrose per day
• Intake and weight gain aren’t affected by bitter taste
• sows avoid blue food
• Newly weaned pigs show a drop in weight gain
• pigs learn to associate a given flavor with a familiar feed

Question 25

Animals eat to _____ and stop eating to prevent _____

Answer 25

Keep warm, hyperthermia

Question 26

Function of cholecystokinin -pancreozymin (CCK)

Answer 26

- Stimulates contraction of gall bladder - stimulates release of pancreatic enzyme - inhibit food intake in hungry animal - acts on stomach by slowing gastric emptying to produce satiety feeling

Question 27

Found peripherally in the GIT as well as brain stem

Answer 27

CCK-A

Question 28

An emergency mechanism the animal uses when its endogenous energy supply is approaching exhaustion

Answer 28

Glucoprivation

Question 29

Chew rate of grazing horse

Answer 29

30 to 50 bites/min for 8-12h/d

Question 30

Ingestive social facilitation of horse

Answer 30

- Horse eat more in groups - horse prefer to eat from the floor and shallow buckets; enables them to see all direction between their legs

Question 31

Palatability of house

Answer 31

- Strong preference for sucrose but no preference for sour, bitter, or even salt solution - grazing behavior is selective

Question 32

What is the first sign of colic in horses

Answer 32

Anorexia

Question 33

Abdominal pain in horses

Answer 33

Colic

Question 34

Stimulates food intake in horses

Answer 34

Diazepam and promazine

Question 35

Clinical problems in horses

Answer 35

1. Cribbing 2. Aerophagia or wind sucking 3. Wood chewing

Question 36

Oral behavior in which horses grasps a horizontal surface such as the rim of a bucket or the rail of a fence with its incisors, flexes its neck, aspirates air into its pharynx

Answer 36

Cribbing

Question 37

Horse aspirate air without grasping an object

Answer 37

Aerophagia or wind sucking

Question 38

Ingestion of wood; this can be due to high roughage in the diet, use of high concentration diet (horse)

Answer 38

Wood chewing

Question 39

found in the brain and mediate panic behavior

Answer 39

CCK-B

Question 40

Stimulates contraction of gall bladder

Answer 40

CCK - pancreozymin

Question 41

Inhibit food intake of hungry animals

Answer 41

CCK - pancreozymin

Question 42

Stimulates release of pancreatic enzyme

Answer 42

CCK - pancreozymin