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Animal feed
Animal feed: materials fed to food-producing animals, defined by Codex/FAO. Covers feed types, industry history from 1810 feed standards, EU/US regulation, additives, and environmental impact; livestock consume ~6 billion tonnes of feed dry matter yearly.
Animal genetic resources for food and agriculture
Animal genetic resources for food and agriculture (AnGR, livestock biodiversity) are genetic material of actual or potential value from livestock species, in live animals or cryopreserved form. Over 1,200 cattle breeds exist; 99 breeds went extinct 2000–2014; managed under FAO's 2007 Global Plan of Action.
Animal glue
Animal glue: collagen-based adhesive from boiling hide and bone; types include hide, bone, fish glue, isinglass. Used since 8000-year-old Nahal Hemar artefacts; dominant until synthetic glues of the 1950s–60s; still used in conservation, lutherie, gummed tape.
Animal health
Animal health: the field covering disease status and welfare of livestock, aquatic and wild animals, coordinated globally by WOAH (founded 1924 as OIE) through standards, WAHIS surveillance, and One Health collaboration with WHO, FAO, and UNEP.
Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) is a John Landis comedy starring John Belushi, the first National Lampoon film, about the Delta fraternity versus Dean Wormer at Faber College in 1962; a $3.5 million film that grossed over $90 million and entered the National Film Registry in 2001.
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry, also called stock breeding, is the managed breeding and care of livestock such as cattle, sheep, and pigs for meat, milk, and other products.
Animal husbandry in China
Animal husbandry in China is the large-scale raising of pigs, poultry, cattle, sheep, and goats, producing nearly a quarter of global meat; 2024 output reached 96.63 million tonnes.
Animal husbandry in Germany
Animal husbandry in Germany is the farming of cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, and goats for meat, milk, and eggs; milk alone contributes about 19 percent of agricultural production value.
Animal husbandry in Himachal Pradesh
Animal husbandry in Himachal Pradesh, India: livestock rearing (cattle, goats, sheep, buffaloes, poultry) central to rural livelihoods; 44.13 lakh animals per 2019 census, transhumant Gaddi and Gujjar pastoralism, growing dairy sector.
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.