TL;DR: A comprehensive understanding of the dietary, animal, and management factors that affect eating and ruminating behavior in dairy cows is provided and an overview of the physiological importance of chewing is presented with emphasis on recent developments and practical implications for feeding and managing the modern housed dairy cow.
TL;DR: An automatic, microcomputer-based system for the digital recording of the jaw movements of free-ranging cattle and sheep is described, providing a reliable means of recording various aspects of the foraging behaviour offree-ranging ruminants.
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that the present ear sensor technology can be used to monitor ruminating and resting behavior of freestall-housed dairy cattle and that this technology shows promise for monitoring eating behavior, whereas more work is needed to determine its suitability to monitor activity of dairy cattle.
TL;DR: It is suggested that risk of acidosis may have little overall effect on general behavior, with the exception of rumination, and identification of these changes in behavior through repeated measurements may assist in the detection of an acidosis event within a herd.