Written for senior undergraduate and graduate students, Animal
Nutrition Science introduces the fundamental topics of animal
nutrition, in a treatment which deals with terrestrial animals in
general. Addressing a wider range of topics than the standard animal
nutrition texts, the subjects covered include nutritional ecology and
the evolution of feeding styles, nutrients (including minerals, vitamins
and water) and their functions, food composition and methods of
evaluating foods, mammalian and microbial digestion and the supply of
nutrients, control and prediction of food intake, quantitative nutrition
and ration formulation, methods of investigating nutritional problems,
nutritional genomics, nutrition and the environment, and methods of feed
processing and animal responses to processed foods.