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Diet Mixing: Teaching Animals to Eat Unpalatable Plants
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BEHAVE: Behavioral Education for Human, Animal, Vegetation & Ecosystem Management
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BEHAVE is a research and outreach program that explores the principles of animal behavior. Our primary focus is on diet and habitat selection of livestock. Understanding how animals learn will enable us to train animals to fit our landscapes rather than having to modify our landscapes to fit our animals. Using grazing as a tool will reduce our use of expensive machinery, fossil fuels and toxic herbicides. By understanding how animals learn we can use their natural behaviors to manage weeds, enhance biodiversity, improve feeding systems, minimize use of riparian areas and much more.

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English
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range management
mixed grazing
grazing management
animal nutrition
Montana
grazing systems
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