Small Animal
This small animal species is the most common pet in U.S. households
What is a dog?
This term describes animals such as cattle and sheep that have a multi-compartment stomach and rely heavily on microbial fermentation.
What is a Ruminant?
This term describes diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans.
What is Zoonotic Disease?
An introductory course required for all animal science students at Rutgers.
What is Intro to Animal Science?
In Animal breeding, this term refers to mating related animals, often to fix certain traits, but can increase expression of recessive defects.
What is Inbreeding?
Currently, this breed is the most common dog breed in the US, beating another breed who held the title for 31 years.
What is the French Bulldog?
The average gestation length of a sow is about this many days.
What is 114 days?
What is Palpation?
This advisor in the department is known for teaching multiple animal science courses, such as domestic animal welfare and behavior.
Who is Dr. Ross?
When a critter (usually an amphibian or reptile), sheds the dead outer layer of their skin.
What is Ecdysis?
Compared with dogs, cats are considered as this because they require certain nutrients (like taurine)
What are Obligate Carnivores?
This painful condition in horses involves the inflammation of the hoof and can be associated with grain overload or endocrine disease.
What is Laminitis?
This type of suture typically doesn't need to be removed and breaks down within a given time frame.
What is Absorbable Suture?
This sheep became famous in 1996 as the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
Who is Dolly the Sheep?
This bird's eye is bigger than its brain.
What is an ostrich?
A healthy adult cat's normal rectal temperature falls roughly within this range.
What is 98.1-102.1 degrees F?
The four-compartment stomach of ruminants includes the rumen, reticulum, omasum and this "true stomach" compartment.
What is the Abomasum?
Animals as well as humans can suffer from these kinds of dilations or bulges in a blood vessel, caused by the weakening of its walls.
What is an Aneurysm?
Animals with a body temperature that is largely independent of the environment are described with this term.
What is Homeothermic?
The average amount of time needed for a honey baked ham to cook (range)
What is 1.5-2.5 hours?
This endocrine disorder in dogs, also called hyperadrenocorticism, results from chronic excessive cortisol, most often from a pituitary tumor.
What is Cushing's Disease?
Deficiency of this trace mineral, often considered together with Vitamin E, is a classic of "white muscle disease" in calves and lambs.
This term describes listening to body sounds, such as heart and lung sounds, usually through a stethoscope.
What is Auscultation?
This faculty member was an extension agent at multiple universities prior to working at Rutgers.
Who is Professor Bignell?
Not to be confused with aquaphobia, hydrophobia is the historic name for which disease?
What is Rabies?