In the agriculture sector, livestock are considered extremely resilient to climate change and
are tipped to play a significant role in ensuring food security to meet the increased demands …

Healthy adult horses can balance accumulation and dissipation of body heat to maintain
their body temperature between 37.5 and 38.5° C, when they are in their thermoneutral zone …

Based on our search, we believe that this is the first paper to evaluate the use of photovoltaic
panels as shade resources for livestock. Photovoltaic panels can provide artificial shades to …

Breeding small ruminants is an important economic activity in arid and semi-arid regions.
This activity has gained more prominence in the present climatic scenario. With increasing …

Climate change has intensified the frequency of heat waves in the world, thereby exposing
farm animals to stressful conditions. For better productive performance it is important to …

Avoiding hyperthermia entails considerable metabolic costs for endotherms. Such costs
increase in warm conditions, when endotherms may trade food intake for cooler areas to …

Activity rhythms play an important role in the ecological relations of a species and form part
of its evolutionary adaptation. Such rhythms are strongly synchronised with the annual cyclic …

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of environmental conditions and
species on thermoregulatory responses, acid-base and electrolyte balance of black goats …

Respiration rate (RR) is 1 of the physiological responses used to gauge the level of heat
stress in cattle. Respiration rate is usually measured by counting chest movement of the …

Context Animal husbandry in thermally stressful environments can be both complex and
difficult, and the anticipated effects of climate change are expected to increase this condition …