Fact Sheets

Behavioral Principles and Practices

• Behavior Depends on Consequences

• Learning about Foods and Locations

• Learning What to Eat and What to Avoid

• Structure Determines Experience
  

• Mineral Nutrition: Are animals nutritionally wise?
  

Social

• Mother Knows Best

Feedback

• Palatability -- More Than a Matter of Taste

• Nutrients Influence Palatability

• Toxins Reduce Palatability

• Toxin-Nutrient Interactions Influence Diet Selection

Variety

• Does Variety Matter?

• Ignoring Variation: Are We Missing Opportunities?

 

Application of Behavioral Principles

Diet Training

• Training Animals to Avoid Foods

• Introducing Animals to New Foods

• Diet Mixing: Increasing Intake of Unpalatable Plants

Pastures & Rangelands

• Livestock as a Tool for Biodiversity in the Sagebrush Steppe

• Structure, Quality and Skills Interact to Influence Forage Intake
  

Poisonous Plants

• Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants

• Reducing Losses Due to Tall Larkspur Poisoning

Habitat

• Preparing Animals for Moving Day

• Training Livestock to Leave Streams and Use Uplands

• Using Low Moisture Blocks to Improve Livestock Distribution & Forage Utilization

 

Plant Response to Grazing

• Carbohydrate Reserves: What You Learned May Be Wrong

• Factors Influencing Grazing Tolerance

• Grazing Response Index: A Simple, Effective Method to Evaluate Plant Responses to Grazing

• Ingestion of Toxic Plants by Herbivores