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Animal husbandry in Japan
Animal husbandry in Japan is the raising of cattle, pigs, and poultry for meat, milk, and eggs, dependent on imported feed and led by Wagyu beef and Hokkaido dairy.
Animal husbandry in Mongolia
Animal husbandry in Mongolia is a mobile, pasture-based system in which herder households raise horses, cattle, sheep, goats, and camels across 83 percent of the country's territory.
Animal husbandry in Pakistan
Animal husbandry in Pakistan is the keeping of cattle, buffalo, goats, and sheep, a sector counted at 251.3 million head in 2024 and supplying about 14.6 percent of GDP.
Animal husbandry in the Caucasus, Turkey and Iran
Animal husbandry in the Caucasus, Turkey, and Iran rests on mixed crop–livestock farming and transhumance, with livestock supplying about half of agricultural output in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.
Animal husbandry in the Middle East and Arabia
Animal husbandry in the Middle East and Arabia is dominated by sheep and goats, raised through Bedouin pastoralism across arid rangelands where crops cover under 2% of land.
Animal Kingdom
动物王国 (Animal Kingdom) is a shared name for several animal theme parks: Yinji Animal Kingdom in Zhengzhou (opened 2020, 570,000 m², 3,000+ animals), Disney's Animal Kingdom (1998), Japanese parks like Izu and Kobe, and a 2022 animal-behavior AI dataset.
Animal Kingdom (film)
Animal Kingdom (2010) is David Michôd's Australian crime drama debut about the Cody family, starring Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, Guy Pearce and Joel Edgerton; Sundance World Cinema Jury Prize winner, nine AFI Awards, and the basis of the 2016 TNT series.
Animal Kingdom (TV series)
Animal Kingdom is an American TNT crime drama (2016–2022), adapted from David Michôd's 2010 Australian film, about 17-year-old J Cody joining his criminal grandmother Smurf (Ellen Barkin) and her sons in Oceanside, California; six seasons, 75 episodes, renewed final season 2021.
Animal law
Animal law, also known as animal rights law, is the body of law on the treatment of nonhuman animals, spanning anti-cruelty statutes, the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, and debates over legal personhood.
Animal Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front (ALF), international leaderless animal rights movement founded in England in 1976 by Ronnie Lee; conducts illegal animal rescues, arson, and property damage against labs, farms, and fur farms; FBI-listed domestic terrorist threat with no formal membership.
Animal locomotion
Animal locomotion, or locomotion in animals, is the movement of an animal through its environment on land, in water, or in air, produced by muscles acting on skeletons and appendages.
Animal magnetism
Animal magnetism (mesmerism) was Franz Anton Mesmer's 18th-century theory of a curative invisible force, debunked by the 1784 Franklin Commission; it seeded hypnosis, placebo research, and blinded trials.
Animal Magnetism (Scorpions album)
Animal Magnetism is the seventh studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions, released March 31, 1980 on Harvest/EMI and Mercury, produced by Dieter Dierks, featuring the singles Make It Real and The Zoo, RIAA platinum in 1991.
Animal Man
Animal Man: DC Comics superhero Buddy Baker, created by France Herron and Carmine Infantino in Strange Adventures #180 (1965); borrows nearby animals' abilities via the morphogenetic field; rebuilt by Grant Morrison's 1988–1990 metafictional Vertigo-preceding run.
Animal migration
Animal migration is the regular seasonal movement of animals between habitats, seen from insects to whales. Key records include the arctic tern's 80,000 km round trip; nearly half of CMS-listed migratory species are declining.
Animal nutrition
Animal nutrition: the science of feeding animals for health and growth, covering nutrient requirements, digestion and absorption, feed efficiency, nutrigenomics, precision feeding, and climate resilience in livestock, poultry, aquaculture, and companion animals.
Animal Park Colfosco
Animal Park Colfosco (Parco Animali Colfosco, Parch di Colfosco) is a free petting zoo in Colfosco, Alta Badia, South Tyrol, with farm animals, a watermill, bread oven, and playground, open daily year-round.
Animal physiology
Animal physiology: the study of life-supporting functions and processes of animals, from molecules to organ systems. Covers homeostasis (Bernard, Cannon), the Krogh principle, comparative and field physiology, and modern biologging methods.
Animal Planet
Animal Planet: American pay-TV channel (launched 1996, Discovery Networks' third flagship, with BBC Worldwide) devoted to wild and domestic animals; known for Crocodile Hunter and Puppy Bowl; now under Skydance-owned Warner Bros. Discovery.
Animal population
Animal population: a group of animals of one species in a given area, also called wildlife stock or bestand. Covers abundance estimation (capture–recapture, distance sampling), trend monitoring, density dependence, and global decline statistics.
Animal rights
Animal rights: the philosophical and legal position that nonhuman animals hold valid claims against harmful human use, distinct from animal welfare. Key figures Singer (Animal Liberation, 1975) and Regan (1983); animals remain legal property, with emerging court-recognized rights.
Animal roleplay
Animal roleplay: humans acting as animals, from furry fursonas and fursuits to therian identity (alt.horror.werewolves, 1990s), quadrobics, and clinical therianthropy; distinct from therianthropy, which is identity, not play.
Animal sacrifice
Animal sacrifice, also called animal offering, is the ritual killing of an animal as a religious offering, practiced in traditions from ancient Israelite worship to Islamic qurbani.
Animal sexual behaviour
Animal sexual behaviour covers courtship, mate choice, mating systems, and copulation in nonhuman animals, explained through Darwin's sexual selection, sperm competition, sexual conflict, and mating-system variation across taxa.
Animal shelter
Animal shelter: facility or foster-based rescue housing stray, surrendered, abandoned, or impounded animals, mainly dogs and cats. U.S. 2025: 5.8 million intakes, 4.2 million adoptions, 597,000 euthanized; open-admission versus limited-admission models.
Animal slaughter
Animal slaughter is the killing of animals for human consumption, also called slaughtering or abattoir killing. Covers its history, stunning methods (electrical, CO2, captive bolt, gas), welfare hazards, and meat-quality effects.
Animal species
Animal species: the fundamental taxonomic unit, defined by lineage and often by reproductive isolation (biological species concept, Mayr). About 2.3 million species described of an estimated 8 million; hybridization and species-concept choice reshape counts.
Animal spirits
Animal spirits are the non-rational, confidence-based motivations that drive economic decisions, a term John Maynard Keynes introduced in 1936 and revived by Akerlof and Shiller's 2009 book.
Animal suicide
Animal suicide: the hypothesized intentional self-killing by nonhuman animals. No wild case is scientifically documented; the debate spans Aelian's 21 ancient cases, the debunked lemming myth, captive self-injury, and death cognition in comparative thanatology.
Animal testing
Animal testing: use of live animals to establish product safety or toxicity, distinct from hypothesis-driven research. Covers 3Rs, EU Directive 2010/63/EU, US AWA/FDA rules, global counts (192.1M in 2015), alternatives, and 2022-2025 policy changes.