Learning Tools

Listed below are a number of resources to help you learn more about the behavior of livestock:

If this is your first visit to our website, I suggest viewing Using Livestock on Your Operation. It overviews the principles of animal behavior along with videos on youtube that demonstrates principles of animals behavior.
Want to give a talk about behavior? You can download powerpoint presentations, videos, etc. from BEHAVE: Instructor Resources.
Our newest resource is Saving Money and Improving Landscapes. It is a series of videos and print material that examines the economic benefits of changing animal behavior.
We also have fact sheets which highlight a single behavioral principle or application.
An online book and video entitled Foraging Behavior.
Behavior facts is a list of the main findings from a variety of scientific studies on behavior and their references.
Lastly, we have an online course. It's free. All you need to do is register to access the course.

Fact Sheets: Highlight a single behavioral principle or application. Each two-page fact sheet is available for download in PDF format.	*Saving Money and Improving Landscapes: The Economics of Using Animal Behavior:* Discusses the economics of teaching cows to eat weeds, letting animals balance their diet, using low-stress handling, and using molasses blocks to extend the grazing season
*Foraging Behavior: Managing to Survive in a World of Change:*This 62-page booklet is filled with information and case studies that explain how herbivores learn what to eat and where to live.	Foraging Behavior: Managing to Survive in a World of Change (DVD): In this six-part series, Fred Provenza and land managers discuss how herbivores cope with changes in their environment and the implications for those managing landscapes.
*Using Livestock on Your Operation:* Outlines principles of behavior and their application. The CD also contains video clips of livestock demonstrating behavioral principles.	BEHAVE: Instructor Resources: This CD contains everything you'll need to prepare several lectures on how livestock learn what to eat and where to live.
Behavior Facts: This is a list of facts and references on how experience, feedback, social interactions, and learning affect diet and habitat selection of ruminants.	Using Livestock Behavior to Improve Landscapes, Productivity and Profitability: This online course was developed for producers and land mangers for the website Forest and Range.org. Clicking on this link takes you to the forestandrange.org website.