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Invasion of the Cassowaries
Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?
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Description
Small Ruminant Research publishes original, basic and applied research articles, technical notes, and review articles on research relating to goats, sheep, deer, the New World camelids llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco, and the Old World camels.
Topics covered include nutrition, physiology, anatomy, genetics, microbiology, ethology, product technology, socio-economics, management, sustainability and environment, veterinary medicine and husbandry engineering.
Small Ruminant Research has an Impact Factor of 0.966 in the Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science Category.
(© 2008 Journal Citation Reports, published by Thomson Reuters)
Editor-in-Chief:
J. Boyazoglu
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Ruminantia
The biological suborder Ruminantia includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing mammals: among them cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and antelope. All members of the Ruminantia are ruminants: they digest food in two steps, chewing and swallowing in the normal way to begin with, and then regurgitating the semi-digested cud to re-chew it and thus extract the maximum possible food value.
Note that not all ruminants belong to the Ruminantia. Camels and llamas are among the exceptions, a suborder known as Tylopoda. Also, there are a number of other large grazing mammals that, while not strictly ruminants, have similar adaptations for surviving on large quantities of low-grade food. Kangaroos and horses are examples.
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Kinkajou
With its slim dark body and clever paws, you can see that the kinkajou is related to our raccoon. The kinkajou’s long grasping tail helps it travel around its home in the rainforest trees. Although its diet is varied, its love of honey earned it the nickname “honey-bear.”
Kinkajou was the younger half-sister of Mozart and appeared sporadically throughout the programme. In the first series, a teenage Kinkajou took her younger brother Mitch from the burrow and left him alone in the desert after she got bored with watching him.[5] She became a more reliable babysitter as she grew older, but followed in her mother Flower’s footsteps with an unauthorised pregnancy in the second series.[69] As Kinkajou was evicted between the second and third series, it remains unanswered how she was reunited with her sisters Mozart and De la Soul.[6]
At the start of the third series, Kinkajou was pregnant by Carlos and determined to become the dominant female of the group. She started her quest for leadership by leading the group on their foraging trips and then initiating a burrow move. As a final assertion of dominance, she demonstrated her right to be the only female in the group with pups by killing Mozart’s newborn pups.[39] She held her position as dominant female until the group, down to only the three sisters, had a disastrous run-in with the Commandoes near the end of the series. After fleeing for their lives, only Kinkajou and Mozart remained. They found a burrow for the night during a storm, but weakened from starvation, Kinkajou died in her sleep.
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