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  • Animal Science
  • Ecology
  • Behavioral Biology

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  • Grazing herbivores face environmental variability impacting health and welfare.
  • Complex environments pose challenges that can affect animal well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reframe environmental challenges as potential sources of positive stress (eustress).
  • To explore how environmental diversity enhances animal adaptability and welfare.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on herbivore behavior and environmental interactions.
  • Analysis of biotic and abiotic factors influencing grazing animal welfare.

Main Results:

  • Diverse landscapes necessitate complex behaviors, improving adaptive capabilities.
  • Successfully navigating environmental challenges leads to enhanced behavioral plasticity and positive emotional states.
  • Environmental diversity acts as a form of eustress, promoting resilience.

Conclusions:

  • Maintaining or increasing landscape diversity is a key management strategy.
  • Promoting eustress through diverse environments improves herbivore welfare.
  • Diverse environments prepare grazing animals for future environmental changes.