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Thirty-six black-hided Angus and Angus crossbred pregnant heifers [418 \u00b1 9 kg body weight (BW); approximately 90 d of gestation] were stratified by breed, blocked by BW, and allocated to 12 \u201cPensacola\u201d bahiagrass pastures (Paspalum notatum Fl\u00fcgg\u00e9; 1.3 ha, n = 3 heifers\/pasture) with or without access to artificial shade (SHADE vs. NO SHADE; 6 pastures each) for 7 wk during summer. The shade structures were composed of shade cloth (11 \u00d7 7.3 m length, 2.4 m height: 26.8 m2 of shade per heifer). Shrunk BW was recorded on enrollment (day 0) and week 7 (day 47), whereas full BW was obtained on week 2 (day 14), 4 (day 28), and 6 (day 42) to assess average daily gain (ADG). Vaginal temperature was recorded for five consecutive days during weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7 using an intravaginal digital thermo-logger, and individual GPS devices were used to quantify the use of shade for an 8-h period. Activity was monitored using automated monitoring devices (HR-LDn tags SCR Engineers Ltd., Netanya, Israel) through the experimental period. Vaginal temperature was lower (P &amp;lt; 0.01) for heifers in the SHADE compared with heifers in the NO SHADE treatment from 1200 to 1600 h and 1100 to 1900 h for weeks 1 and 3, respectively. Heifers in the SHADE treatment spent 70% of the 8-h period evaluated under the shaded structure. Provision of shade increased (P &amp;lt; 0.01) daily lying time (11.4 \u00b1 0.2 vs. 10.3 \u00b1 0.2 h\/d) and standing bouts per day (P &amp;lt; 0.01; 12.6 \u00b1 0.4 vs. 10.8 \u00b1 0.4 bouts\/d), whereas it reduced (P &amp;lt; 0.01) standing bout duration (61.6 \u00b1 3.0 vs. 82.9 \u00b1 3.0 min\/bout) relative to heifers without access to shade. The interaction between treatment and hour affected (P &amp;lt; 0.01) daily rumination time because heifers with access to SHADE had greater rumination between 1000 and 1200 h. Although ADG tended (P = 0.08) to be greater for the heifers in the SHADE treatment (0.20 vs. \u22120.02 kg, respectively), the access to shade did not (P = 0.79) affect the final BW. 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