At the North Dakota Angus University this summer, Colin Tobin, NDSU research animal scientist at the Carrington Research Extension Center (CREC), used accelerometer ear tags and temperature-logging devices to identify behaviors that would indicate the level of heat stress cattle experience from different surfaces.
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