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The interspecies interactions between farmers and livestock have provided an important conceptual and empirical focus in expanding our understanding of animal geographies, with a burgeoning literature exploring the intricate material and discursive (re)positioning of animals across different socio-spatial contexts. This paper offers a new direction for understanding these human-animal encounters by exploring the ways in which farmer and animal identities are mediated by social media. By drawing on a qualitative analysis of UK farmers' tweets about their livestock and semi-structured interviews about farmers' use of social media, this paper examines how social media allows a reworking of the spatiotemporalities of animal-human relations and offers farmers the opportunity to co-construct their identities with their livestock and farming practices. The paper identifies three ways in which farmer–livestock relations are mediated by social media. Firstly, that animals are made visible as actors within farming cultures to those beyond the farm gate. Secondly, that the role of farm animals as subjects and objects is negotiated throughout temporal moments online and thirdly that representations on social media of interactions with animals plays a role in the (re)construction of farmers' identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of English animal-related terms used figuratively with reference to types of parenting. To be more precise, we make an attempt to investigate the scope of the conceptual metaphor PARENTS ARE ANIMALS. What ignited our interest was the ubiquity of linguistic metaphors featuring animal terms employed with reference to types of parenting present in everyday language, thus we have decided to delve into what types of animals are typical source domains in metaphors of this type. The methodology adopted is the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, originally proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and further developed in numerous subsequent publications, especially those by Kövecses (2003, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2017a, 2017b). Our results are supported by evidence from the online Corpus of Contemporary American English and News on the Web Corpus, which may be said to corroborate not only the conceptual nature of metaphors as such, but also their impact on social cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to contribute to counteracting the negative perception of Descartes' philosophical legacy. The article addresses a specific aspect of the supposed human dominance over nature, that of the animal question. Against the accusation of "speciesism," a hierarchy that considers humans superior and justifies their domination and cruelty towards animals, it is argued that Descartes did not regard animals as completely insensible, that his position was not as categorical as often presented, and that he can be interpreted not as a speciesist but as an environmental advocate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Celebrities can generate substantial attention and influence public interest in species. Using a large‐scale examination of publicly available data, we assessed whether species across 6 taxonomic groups received more page views on Wikipedia when the species was named after a celebrity than when it was not. We conducted our analysis for 4 increasingly strict thresholds of how many average daily Wikipedia page views a celebrity had (1, 10, 100, or 1000 views). Overall, we found a high probability (0.96–0.98) that species named after celebrities had more page views than their closest relatives that were not named after celebrities, irrespective of the celebrity threshold. The multiplicative effect on species' page views was larger but more uncertain as celebrity page‐view thresholds increased. The range for thresholds of 1 to 1000 was 1.08 (95% credible interval [CI] 1.00–1.18) to 1.76 (95% CI 0.96–2.80), respectively. The hierarchical estimates for the taxa tended to be positive. The strongest effects were for invertebrates, followed by amphibians, reptiles, fish, and mammals, whereas the weakest effect was for birds at lower page‐view thresholds. Our results suggest that naming species after celebrities could be particularly significant for those belonging to taxonomic groups that are generally less popular than others (e.g., invertebrates). Celebrities may further influence the effectiveness of this marketing strategy, depending on their likability and connection to the species named after them. Eponyms may serve as a reminder of the disproportionate power dynamics between populations and some namesakes' untenable actions. However, they also provide an opportunity to recognize remarkable individuals and promote equity, inclusivity, and diversity in taxonomic practice. We encourage taxonomists to examine whether naming threatened species after celebrities could affect conservation support, especially for species that are otherwise typically overlooked by the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the series of photographs Silencios (2010-present), Juan Manuel Echavarría portrays the abandoned rural schools in Colombia caused by enforced displacement in the frame of the armed conflict. Unlike the abundant representations of violence in Colombia in which the human body is the protagonist and direct violence prevails (such as mutilated bodies, corpses, and grieving physiognomies), in these images, there is no presence of human bodies. Conversely, the photographer decided to depict the ruins and in four of them, he portrays farm animals in front of the school boards, such as a rooster, a calf, and a donkey. Departing from the title of the series, which alludes to sound, I articulate the way in which, by decentering the human body and centering the animal as a witness of violence, a nonhuman soundscape is configured that challenges the scopophilia and anthropocentrism that dominates the visuality of the armed conflict in Colombia. Even though this article departs from the question of the visual representation of violence in Colombia, it is also intended to contribute to the intersection between sound studies, visual studies, and more than human perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the configuration of anti-speciesist feminisms (AF) based on the experiences of a trans activist and twelve animalist women from Ecuador, along with the performative work of a trans artist from Colombia. A theoretical model is used that puts community feminisms in dialogue with Feminist Animal Studies to identify the decolonial discourses and practices that characterize these political subjectivities. Qualitative methodology based on fourteen indepth interviews and the analysis of images coded with the Atlas.ti program is used. On the one hand, we show how activists denounce patriarchal and carnist regimes within social movements and, on the other hand, we emphasize the place of the body-territory and animality as a sensitive space of political dispute to question gender and species binarisms. Through reanimalization as a decolonial practice, which entails embodying certain politics of the abject through "animal transvestism", the close link between speciesism and the coloniality of power and gender becomes evident. It is concluded that these anti-speciesist feminisms question the place of the animal as a marker of power and as a process of subalternization and, through performance, seek to translate the suffering place of non-human animals to promote interspecies alliances and fabrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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How do we include animals in sociology? Although sociology's initial avoidance of the nonhuman world may have been necessary to the field's development, recent scholarship – within mainstream sociology, environmental sociology and animal-centred research – is helping expand the field's horizons. With a focus on variety, this article reviews four key paths that researchers are taking to include animals in their research: (1) studying interspecies relations, (2) theorizing animals as an oppressed group, (3) investigating the social and ecological impacts of animal agriculture and (4) analysing social-ecological networks. This review shows how applying – and innovating – existing social theories and research methods allows researchers to include animals in their analyses and will be relevant to a variety of scholars, including mainstream and environmental sociologists, animal-focused researchers and social network analysts, to name a few. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel De Gados e Homens (2013) takes place in a provincial slaughterhouse situated on a polluted valley. Its author, Ana Paula Maia, depicts the interspecies encounters that take place in this context and suggests possible, albeit troubling, means of acknowledging nonhuman agency. This article examines how Maia’s novel De Gados e Homens (2014) develops a zoopoetics of the slaughterhouse through the eyes of Edgar Wilson, the slaughterer protagonist. The first section analyzes the polluted valley and the slaughterhouse, which jointly serve as the novel’s setting and offer the conditions of possibility for the interspecies encounter. The second section studies how, in that marginal and isolated environment, the slaughterhouse worker’s ethical encounter with the cow’s face renders him response-able. Through the lenses of Levinas’ ethics and the Derridian critique of his anthropocentric limitations, it will be possible to address the ethical complexity of the relationship between the slaughterer and his cows. Finally, the third section examines how Maia’s novel suggests bovine agency and communication and explains why the slaughterer is the only character psychologically open to this possibility. This reading of the novel aims to elucidate the relationship between environmental degradation, Edgar’s distinctive perspective, and the portrayal and behavior of cows within the narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The description and analysis of the different antibiotics registered in a country allow establishment of criteria on their use, species, and routes of administration, which translates into better controls for the entities in stakeholders. This study is the first report of antibiotics for veterinary use in Guatemala and was carried out through data mining and analysis of the same through Principal Component Analysis, where the registration of 141 molecules of antibiotics and their combinations was exhibited, in which enrofloxacin (10.26%) and oxytetracycline (9.01%) stand out as the antibiotics with the largest number of registrations in the country and the most used in food-producing species, specifically cattle, pigs, and poultry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective is to generate attitudes and values in Infantil Education, that allow us to develop a positive vision towards "the other" and facilitating the creation of processes of intercultural coexistence through empathy towards animals. It will be through the first years from where one begins to learn to discriminate, to peacefully resolve situations of conflict, to acquire attitudes of respect, tolerance and solidarity, to work collaboratively, to eliminate situations of discrimination, inequality or violence, to favor processes of empathy, ..., in short, to build solid pillars of intercultural coexistence. We have applied a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology, based on the techniques of the elaboration of a questionnaire and participant observation. The initial resource has been the elaboration of a story, that applied transversally, has allowed to intervene in the auditory, visual and psychomotor development of the child. The conclusions reached confirm very favorably the proposed objective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Solid-state fermented apple pomace (AP-SSF) enriched with non-nitrogen protein has been studied as an alternative ingredient for feeding dairy cattle. The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of the inclusion of AP-SSF in the feeding of dairy cows in early lactation on the yield and quality of milk, microbial contamination, and ruminal fermentation parameters, as well as the concentration of ammonia and the number of protozoa. Twenty Holstein cows were used, 20 of 660 kg on average, with 2-4 lactations and an average of 89 days in milk. Two groups were formed with ten cows each, randomly distributed to form a 2 x 2 Latin square with standard periods. Experiment diets were formulated with traditional ingredients, and one of them was added AP-SSF. Rations were gradually incorporated, giving ten days for adaptation and another 20 days for sampling. In lactose and production variables, no difference was statistically significant (P> 0.05) in milk fat and protein differences (P < 0.05) in the first component for the control treatment and the second toward treatment, as AP-SSF succeeded in increasing the percentage of milk fat. For Staphylococcus sp., Streptococcus sp. and Total coliform differences (P < 0.05) in favor of the treatment were achieved AP-SSF and decreased the CFU / mL for Salmonella sp. while there was no difference (P > 0.05). Volatile fatty acids showed statistical difference (P < 0.05) for Acetic, Propionic, and Butyric acids. AP-SSF treatment for the rest of the parameters ruminal pH, ammonia, and protozoa did not show any significant difference (P > 0.05) between treatments. Concluded that it is possible to incorporate AP-SSF as a protein ingredient in diets of dairy cows in early lactation because some variables improved and showed no adverse effects in any of the variables evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Armed conflicts, whether international or not, result in the degradation or even destruction of parts of the natural environment, including animals, vegetation, soil, water systems and ecosystems. In some situations, the impact may extend over large areas and continue for years or even decades after hostilities end. Although a certain level of environmental damage is inherent in armed conflict, it cannot be unlimited. As part of the environment, animals benefit from protection deriving from the principles and provisions of the law of armed conflict that provide direct and indirect environmental safeguards. The notion of environment, for the purposes of international humanitarian law, encompasses all animals (including farm and companion animals) and, in particular, wildlife and their habitats, as well as the relationship that these beings maintain with the ecological system in which they exist. Our work aims to examine and analyze the obligations of the rules contained in the law of armed conflict that protect the natural environment in order to detect the main ways of protection that can be applied to animals, as parts of the natural environment, to this regard. The interest in approaching this research topic lies in the love I have for animals and in the scarce doctrinal literature in Spanish that has been located on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Analysis of the image and discourse of Spanish press publications on the Animal Protection, Rights and Welfare Law. Using a mixed methodology based on content analysis, image analysis and critical discourse analysis, a total of 103 publications from general and specialised media have been analysed, in which it is clear that there is little social interest in the subject and the radicalism of the media that reject the law and are in favour of hunting, even threatening the promoters of the law with intimidating photomontages and hate speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the beginning of vegan life trajectories using Ahmed's perspective on emotions. We aim to understand how emotions work in the path to veganism. We analyzed biographic interviews, specifically stories about catalytic experiences and moments of contact with animals during childhood. In both kinds of experiences, feelings of fear, disgust and love are intertwined, and are driving force behind distancing, drawing closer, identification and alterization processes that shapes the lives and social relations of the participants. We claim that catalytic experiences are entanglements of emotion, cognition and sensation where self awareness and a quest for congruence occur. We also claim that the path to veganism is made of contacts and impressions that leave traces on the bodies and resonate in the trajectories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to show options for preparing, observing, recording images of biological samples and provide recommendations on optimal procedures for each specimen. Some basic concepts are developed to take into account when preparing and observing biological samples of different origin. Some experiences carried out in the Scanning Electron Microscopy Service of UNNE are described. The procedures to observe, analyze and record morphological details of different biological sample types are explained. According to the fragility of the sample, some working conditions are recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. Colistin is an antibiotic of last resort for treating serious Gram-negative bacterial infections. However, the misuse of colistin, especially as an animal growth promoter, has contributed to increasing antimicrobial resistance, mediated mainly through plasmid transfer of the mcr-1 gene. This study assessed the prevalence of phenotypic and molecular colistin resistance in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Ecuador in healthy humans and their chickens and pigs. Methods. Fecal samples were collected from humans and their chickens and pigs in two rural coastal and Amazon regions between April and August 2020. Gram-negative bacteria were isolated and identified using conventional techniques. Phenotypic resistance was determined using the broth microdilution technique, and the mcr-1 gene was detected using conventional polymerase chain reaction. Results. A total of 438 fecal samples were obtained from 137 humans, 147 pigs and 154 chickens. The prevalence of E. coli isolates was 86.3% (378/438) and K. pneumoniae, 37.4% (164/438). Overall, the mcr-1 gene was found in 90% (340/378) of E. coli isolates, with higher prevalences found in isolates from coastal regions (96.5%, 191/198), humans (95.6%, 111/116) and chickens (91.8%, 123/134); for K. pneumoniae, the gene was found in 19.5% (32/164) of isolates, with equal distribution between regions and hosts. Only four isolates, two E. coli and two K. pneumoniae, showed phenotypic resistance: mcr-1 was present in both E. coli strains but absent in the K. pneumoniae strains. Conclusions. Despite a low prevalence of phenotypic resistance to colistin, the high prevalence of the mcr-1 gene in E. coli is of concern. Ecuador's ban on using colistin in animal husbandry must be enforced, and continual monitoring of the situation should be implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article about the book Wit and Wisdom in Morocco: a Study of Native Proverbs, published by Finnish sociologist Edvard Westermarck in 1930, I examine a corpus of animal proverbs. In my study of the local theories about animality, I analyze the extent to which the book includes an ontography (writing about beings) and an epistemography (writing about native points of view and forms of knowledge). Similarly, I examine the extent to which Westermarck's work includes co-authorship with his main interlocutor in Morocco, Sidi Abdessalam El-Baqqali, and other assistants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: Penetrating abdominal trauma caused by a bull horn represents less than 3%. They are wounds that must be considered contaminated and the first cause of death from this type of trauma is hypovolemic shock. Case presentation: We present the case of a 60-year-old man with penetrating abdominal trauma from a bull horn injury to the left flank and hypogastrium measuring 18x8 cm in length, with acute traumatic evisceration. he underwent to exploratory laparotomy, where no injuries to solid organs or hollow viscera were evidenced. The patient evolved with no complications. Discussion. Due to their characteristics, bull horn wounds are considered dirty and reach up to 50% infection. Within its initial management, antibiotics and surgical approaches should be included according to each case. Conclusion: Penetrating abdominal trauma caused by a bull horn injury is a rare mechanism, however surgeons must be trained to treat these types of patients surgically and nonoperatively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: The inclusion of low digestibility mushroom lignocellulosic residues has become a significant part of recycling wastes. The enzymes produced are capable of transforming the substrate, improving it for further use. Aim. To conduct a review on the utilization of mushroom processing residues in animal nutrition. Development: The residues derived from mushroom processing is the substrate or compost that remained after mushroom harvesting. It has the required raw materials (hay, peels, etc.), as well as some added compound, such as urea or other sources of nitrogen. Besides, the action of mycelia on the compost may enhance its nutritional value. Edible mushrooms contain high-value bioactive compounds, and make an adequate source of prebiotics that have short-chain sugars. A fifth of all mushrooms remain on the bedding, providing nutritional and medicinal values. The nutritional changes were evaluated with techniques like the Weende scheme, and of in vitro, in situ, and in vivo determinations of digestibility. Conclusions: The results of this study showed that the residues from mushroom processing using low-quality sources (especially harvested rice stalks), may be used for animal nutrition, whose evaluation is necessary through the proper methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of implementing ecological bridges in the Andean region of Colombia is increasing, it is enough to review the numerous deaths of animals on the roads and realize that many of them are animals in danger of extinction. The objective of this research is to demonstrate the great need to implement ecological bridges on the Girardot-Melgar road. Therefore, in the present investigation, the road from Girardot-Cundinamarca Km 8+000 to Melgar-Tolima Km 24+000 was analyzed, where an analysis of the animals that are run over on the roads was carried out, evaluating the feasibility of implementing ecological bridges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article derives from the research carried out during the master's studies, so it shows what is the worldview about the animal, from the West, the ancient Mesoamericans, the colonized people of Mexico and what is the heritage of the Zapotecs of the town of San Juan Yagila. Here you can find out why Western thought places the animal as an object that provides knowledge and why Zapotec thought places the animal as a subject capable of providing knowledge. It reflects then, part of the intangible knowledge that is learned from childhood in the Zapotec culture of the people of Yaxhil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The alētheia of Cats. Balthus, Rilke and the Problem of the 'Open'". This paper takes as a starting point the artistic collaboration between Rainer Maria Rilke and Balthazar Klossowski -Balthus-, which took the form of a book entitled Mitsou. Story of a Cat, illustrated by the young painter and foreworded by the poet. This case study serves as a guiding thread running through a deep analysis of the problem of the "Open", a noumenic concept coined by Rilke in his creative exchange with Balthus. This concept was specifically discussed by Martin Heidegger. Thus, the present paper attempts to address the implications of affinity and confrontation between Rilke and Heidegger and to explore the metaphorical figure of the cat as the expression of certain animality within the unveiling that takes place in the Da-sein. For this purpose, it will also be necessary to explore theoretical key approaches taken from Ortega y Gasset and Schopenhauer, as well as critical positions particularly relevant in this field defended by Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Derrida, which tend towards an animalistic ontology of alētheia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The applications of malathion ULV in the Region Lagunera are considered as a fundamental action to combat the cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis, Boheman, considered the main pest in this region. The present study was carried out know the effect generated by aerial applications of malathion ULV on the beneficial insect associated with the cotton crop. Samples were carried out in four fields located in the state of Durango with different number of aerial applications during August in the 2018 and 2019 agricultural cycles. Samples consisted of 20 net sweeps in five points of each locality, giving a total of 100 blows per property, later collected material was classified and identified in the laboratory. The variables evaluated were the number of insects per 100 net sweeps of each species or taxonomic group. In the 2018 cycle, the Lucero field had two aerial applications presented a greater number of entomophagous insects compared to other fields (F = 7.088, gl = 3, P = 0.001). Britingham field had three aerial applications, two in Horizonte and only one in Pamplona. In the 2019 cycle no significant difference was observed between fields (F = 0.798, gl = 3, P = 0.503). San Sebastián field had three aerial applications, two in Lucero, only one in Jauja while in the Pamplona field no applications were made. In 2018 the most abundant were C. carnea, H. convergens and O. tristicolor, while in 2019 C. carnea, O. tristicolor and H. convergens were in descending order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to study some complex issues debated in ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law in order to identify certain asymmetries and inconsistencies that take place in these areas when contemporary liberal philosophy deals with the moral consideration owed to animals. I will try to show how the stances adopted regarding some matters should lead to certain positions in others that refer to the moral status of animals, but that this not always is the case. This will allow me to suggest that the theoretical reasoning in those fields does not always meet the standards of rationality, impartiality and universality that should provide its grounds, and that it is divided in watertight compartments that prevent to submit it to certain tests of coherence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colonial-capitalist animal agriculture is a site of ruin and a process of ruination. Farmed animals at the heart of these agricultural systems become sites of production and capital accumulation, their bodies genetically coded for commoditization and their short lives organized around logics of extraction. Farmed animals in settler states like the United States are simultaneously colonized subjects and settler-descendants and, as such, occupy a complex position in imaginaries of anticolonial futures. This article considers the possibility of flourishing for those farmed species never meant to flourish, explaining first how animal agriculture as a taken-for-granted institution forms part of the fabric of the ruination delivered by colonial-capitalism. And yet, even as animals' bodies are devastated by production and consumption processes, there exist glimmers of possibility for radically different conceptualizations of farmed animals' lives in multispecies worlds outside of farming contexts. This article analyzes sanctuaries for formerly farmed animals as one such site of possibility. Sanctuaries mark out geographic spaces as sites of hope that manifest in spite of and actively against colonial-capitalist logics, where human–animal relationships are radically redefined, articulated, and practiced—indeed, where animals' lives are organized around how they can flourish. As such, this article calls for an unthinkable anticolonial politics of multispecies flourishing beyond colonial-capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. To quantify some meat quality physicochemical traits in Longissimus thoracis from hair sheep in southeast Mexico, and test if any of these traits effectively distinguish between genotypes. Materials and methods. Animals were 18 male lambs from the Dorper (Dp, n=6) and Katahdin (Kt, n=6) breeds, and F1 Dorper sire x Katahdin dam (DpxKt, n=6) crosses. They were slaughtered at 29.5 ± 4.2 kg average weight, at 6.2 ± 0.2 months. Proximate composition and physicochemical analyses were run of Longissimus thoracis samples, and a canonical discriminant analysis run to identify traits that distinguished between breeds. Results. Genetic group had no effect (p>0.05) on moisture (%), crude protein (% CP) and myoglobin content. It did affect (p<0.05) intramuscular crude fat (% IMF), ash (%) and cholesterol content. IMF (4.05%) and cholesterol (92.63 mg/100 g) were highest in Kt. Ash content (1.01%) was lowest in DpxKt. Values for pH did not differ between genetic groups and were within normal limits. Cooking and drip losses were highest in DpxKt. Chroma, L* and a* values were highest in Kt, providing fresh meat from this genotype a desirable bright red color. The distinction analysis identified drip loss, IMF, Chroma and a* as effectively separating the genotypes. Conclusions. Genetic group influenced intramuscular fat, cholesterol and ash contents, and four traits served to distinguish between genotypes. These are important data for producers and marketers as they aim to create fresh meat products with specific meat quality physicochemical traits that meet demand in a diversifying market that includes grilling and gourmet cuts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]