7/05/2009

Goat & Sheep Grazing Observed Abundantly Throghout The Sanctuary


Goat & Sheep are known for their nature of browsing various herbs and shrubs including different grasses. Palatable grasses which the wild animals like spotted dear, sambhar, barking deers and other herbivores graze are exhausted by these livestock. Herbivores are limited in their feeding ability by either time or resources. Animals that are time limited, meaning they have a limited amount of time to consume the food they need, use a feeding strategy of grazing and browsing, while those animals that are resource limited, meaning that they are limited in the type of food they eat, use a selective feeding strategy. Grazers/browsers tend to be either very large herbivores that need to consume a lot of food in order to maintain their metabolism, or herbivores that have a very short amount of time to eat as much as possible before reproducing, like many generalist insects.