Soil ingestion is expressed as 6% of feed or forage intake for grazing cattle, yielding Qsoil = 432 g dry weight/day (IAEA 1994).
If similar conditions should reign in the gastrointestinal tract of sheep after normal ingestion of forage it could explain why high Fe content is related to the occurrence of clinical scrapie.
A diving seabird's density can be expected to increase between the first and the last dive of a foraging trip with the ingestion of prey.
The large range and potentially long-term retention of ingested plastic indicate that albatross may prove to be a useful species for sampling marine debris and other pollutants in the North Pacific Ocean [35], and as such, efforts should be made to continue monitoring their plastic ingestion and foraging patterns.
The animals lived in an indoor/outdoor housing facility, where the probable mode of contamination is by ingestion of food foraging around the enclosure which could be contaminated with fox feces.
Young, L. C., Vanderlip, C., Duffy, D. C., Afanasyev, V. & Shaffer, S. A. Bringing home the trash: do colony-based differences in foraging distribution lead to increased plastic ingestion in Laysan albatrosses?
An animal's feeding behavior consists of a collection of diverse behaviors such as foraging, recognition of food, and food ingestion.
In the "Continuous Exposure" test, bees were first inoculated with C. bombi and then fed on a daily diet of a nicotine solution or sucrose solution (Control), simulating the continual ingestion of nectar constituents by an infected foraging bee.
The risk of monkey infection of the SILABE platform with E. multilocularis is real as shown by the recent description of a macaque infection by Taenia martis tapeworm probably acquired through egg ingestion directly from carnivore feces or during foraging activities [ 18].
This again probably resulted in our underestimating the proportion of orchid seeds that would be ingested because directed foraging would result in a more thorough coverage of the soil surface and correspondingly higher ingestion of orchid seeds that had fallen there.
