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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Cumulative stress in research animals: Telomere attrition as a biomarker in a welfare context?

Authors: M. Bateson

Publication/Journal: Bioessays

Keywords: age, animal welfare, anxiety disorders, biochemistry & molecular biology, biological age, biology, biomarker, body-mass, chronic pain, cortisol, cumulative experience, cumulative severity, dynamics, length, life-span, oxidative stress, stress, telomere dynamics

2016

Age and body size of captive hawksbill turtles at the onset of follicular development

Authors: Isao Kawazu, Masakatsu Kino, Konomi Maeda, Hideshi Teruya

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: body-mass, straight carapace length, vitellogenesis

2015

Adaptive management of body mass by Siberian jays

Authors: Irja Ida Ratikainen, Jonathan Wright

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: body-mass, caching, environmental unpredictability, perisoreus infaustus, rule of thumb, siberian jay, winter fattening

2013

Hypertension Increases With Aging and Obesity in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: John J. Ely, Tony Zavaskis, Michael L. Lammey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: blood-pressure, body weight, geriatric, normal range, normotension, prehypertension

2013

The scaling of eye size with body mass in birds

Authors: M. de L. Brooke, S. Hanley, S. B. Laughlin

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: allometry, body-mass, eye, flight speed, resolution, visual ecology

1999

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