Adequate time lying down is often considered an important aspect of dairy cow welfare. We
examine what is known about cows' motivation to lie down and the consequences for health …

Since the 1980s, efforts have been made to develop sensors that measure a parameter from
an individual cow. The development started with individual cow recognition and was …

Living systems operate far from thermal equilibrium by converting the chemical potential of
ATP into mechanical work to achieve growth, replication, or locomotion. Given time series …

Genetically identical cells sharing an environment can display markedly different
phenotypes. It is often unclear how much of this variation derives from chance, external …

With more dairy cows being housed indoors, for at least part of the year, it is important to
understand how housing impacts on 'normal behaviour'and the implications for cow welfare …

The presented study determining the relationship between the Temperature Humidity Index
(THI) value during the summer months (June–August) and daily behaviour of 40 Holstein …

The study of animal feeding behaviour is of interest to understand feeding, to investigate the
effect of treatments and conditions or to predict illness. This paper reviews the different steps …

Most models of ecological and eco‐evolutionary processes involve creating trajectories of
something, be it population densities, average trait values, or environmental states, over …

Until recently, animal behavior has been studied through close and extensive observation of
individual animals and has relied on subjective assessments. Wearable technologies that …

Nearly a third of dairy cows are removed from herds annually in the United States. Our
objective is to describe what is known about the process of sending a dairy cow to slaughter …