In addition to support in aggressive interactions, long-term male caretaking behavior has many other potential fitness benefits for immature baboons that deserve further study, including increased foraging efficiency, access to high quality foods, and protection from predators.
Within these regional corridor networks, flexibility can be maintained through flexible pastoral tenure arrangements to access forage and water for livestock.
For instance, pastoralists across Kenya's rangelands judge pasture conditions based on livestock attributes (rumen-fill, coat condition, milk production, weight gain, etc)., while grazing suitability is based on environmental factors such as forage availability, water access, predator risk, disease and parasite loads (Kipuri 1996; Wasonga et al. 2003).
Results of analyses of livestock movement records from 2008 to 2011 indicate that there are significant differences between group ranches in where they move their livestock during dry seasons or droughts to access forage and water resources, with a few exceptions.
There is more to your cows than having them able to be bred and raise a calf, they have to be cared for and managed in such a way that they are in good health, good body condition and are getting sufficient minerals and nutrients in the forage they have access to.
This behavior might provide protection from predators, improved foraging success, or access to mates.
However, when serving as grass banks, conservancies may also increase mobility (or access to forage) when times are hardest and thus allow for possible synergistic relationship to exist between livestock and conservancies, in which conservancies may enhance long-term but controlled livestock mobility.
This mathematical unity permits the translation of existing knowledge about the nutrient uptake physiology of plants into the language of foraging behaviour, and as a result gives botanists direct access to foraging theory.
Although taste is subjective, eggs from chickens that have access to forage and bugs have a greater omega-3 fatty acid content than those from large-scale cage operations, said Dr. Bruce Charleton, a diagnostician for the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory system.
Gaining access to forage and water is critical for pastoralists (Scoones and Graham 1994).
