Simple Summary Animals adopt several strategies to regulate their body temperature by
promoting heat loss or gain in hot and cold environments, respectively. This mechanism of …

Simple Summary Although ruminant newborns are a precocial species, they are susceptible
to hypothermia and neonatal mortality during the first hours of life due to intrinsic and …

Infrared thermography (IRT) imaging technology, as a convenient, efficient, and contactless
temperature measurement technology, has been widely applied to animal production. In this …

Simple Summary The present review aims to analyze the scientific evidence of the
hypothalamic control of hypothermia and the central and peripheral changes that are …

Adverse weather conditions are important contributors to mortality in new-born lambs.
Previous studies have shown variation between lambs in their ability to cope with …

In extensive sheep production systems, most of the lambs' deaths are related to their low
vitality at birth, and an inadequate ewe-lamb bond, leading to lambs' hypothermia. In this …

The objective was to evaluate the differences between hair lambs, born from single or twin
births, regarding the latency periods for standing up and suckling, the vitality, glycemic …

Background Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is known to be capable of non-shivering
thermogenesis under cold stimulation, which is related to the mortality of animals. In the …

The objective of this study was to measure the effects of melatonin implants in meat ewes at
late pregnancy, at lambing, or both, on colostrum and milk composition, growth of their …

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), caused by pathology in the cochlea, is the most
common type of hearing loss in humans. It is generally irreversible with very few effective …