Benefits for Dominant Red Deer Hinds under a Competitive Feeding System: Food Access Behavior, Diet and Nutrient Selection

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.vuzv.cz/sites/File/_privat/12027.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.vuzv.cz/sites/File/_privat/12027.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032780" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0032780</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Benefits for Dominant Red Deer Hinds under a Competitive Feeding System: Food Access Behavior, Diet and Nutrient Selection

Original language description

Social dominance is widely known to facilitate access to food resources in many animal species. We assessed if, even under ad libitum conditions, social rank may allow dominant hinds to consume the preferred components of food consisting of pellets of sunflower, lucerne and orange, and seeds of cereals, corn, cotton, and carob tree under competitive feeding system (limited space at the feeder). Feeding behavior and meal abundance and composition were assessed during feeding on a deer farm in Spain. Social rank was positively related to the amount of time spent feeding. Selection indices were positively correlated with energy and fat, but also negatively with certain minerals. Thus, dominant hinds could select high energy meal components for longer timeunder an ad libitum but restricted food access setting. Selectivity of food decreased with time. High and low ranking hinds had longer time per feeding bout than mid ones, suggesting complex behavioral feeding tactics of low ranking soci

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GG - Zootechnics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP523%2F08%2FP301" target="_blank" >GP523/08/P301: Behavioural function of pre-orbital gland opening in red and fallow deer</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS One

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

32780

UT code for WoS article

000303017700104

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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