Further Than Fur: Effects of Sex, Body Site, and Season on Hair Color and Hair Cortisol Concentration in Captive Addax nasomaculatus Antelopes

Authors: Juan Pablo Damián, María Eugenia Banguese, Santiago Bentancor, Analía Pérez, Sarina Sierra, Cesar Echaides, Ana Pérez-Sarasqueta, Ana Claudia Menezes, Paula Pessina, Matías Villagrán

Publication/Journal: Ruminants

Keywords: animal welfare, ex situ conservation, ruminant, stress, thermoregulation

2024

Development of an image-based body condition score for giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis and a comparison of zoo-housed and free-ranging individuals

Authors: Irina Clavadetscher, Monica Bond, Louise Martin, Christian Schiffmann, Jean-Michel Hatt, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: body condition score, free-ranging giraffe, PMS, zoo

2021

Effects of Transport Conditions on Behavioural and Physiological Responses of Horses

Authors: Barbara Padalino, Sharanne L Raidal

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behaviour, equine, position, space, stomach ulcers, travelling, welfare

2020

Given the Cold Shoulder: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Reptile Sentience

Authors: Helen Lambert, Gemma Carder, Neil D'Cruze

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, cognition, emotion, exotic pet trade, lizard, reptile, sentience, snake, tortoise, turtle

2019

Environmental enrichment facilitates release and survival of an injured loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) after ten years in captivity

Authors: Tania Monreal-Pawlowsky, Vicente Marco-Cabedo, Xavier Manteca, Gemma Palencia Membrive, Josep Sanjosé, Oriol Fuentes, Elsa Jiménez

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: caretta caretta, environmental enrichment, fore flipper loss, loggerhead sea turtle, release to wild

2017

A functional approach to the body condition assessment of lactating donkeys as a tool for welfare evaluation

Authors: E. Valle, F. Raspa, M. Giribaldi, R. Barbero, S. Bergagna, S. Antoniazzi, A. K. Mc Lean, M. Minero, L. Cavallarin

Publication/Journal: Peerj

Keywords: adiposity, body condition, condition score, disorders, domestic horses, donkey, equus-asinus, fatty neck score, milk, morphometric measurements, multidisciplinary sciences, ponies, prevalence, risk-factors, welfare

2017

Body condition scoring system for greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis): Development and application

Authors: Eva M. Heidegger, Friederike von Houwald, Beatrice Steck, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: body condition, feeding, foot lesion, obesity, reproduction, rhinoceros

2016

Confinement of sows for different periods during lactation: effects on behaviour and lesions of sows and performance of piglets

Authors: Lambertz,C., Petig,M., Elkmann,A., Gauly,M.

Publication/Journal: animal

Keywords: behaviour, farrowing crate, integument, loose-housing, sow

2015

Does the presence of shoulder ulcers affect the behaviour of sows?

Authors: Thea Larsen, Marianne Kaiser, Mette S. Herskin

Publication/Journal: Research in Veterinary Science

Keywords: behaviour, pain, shoulder ulcer, sow, welfare

2015

A visual system for scoring body condition of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus)

Authors: Shanmugasundaram Wijeyamohan, Kibby Treiber, Dennis Schmitt, Charles Santiapillai

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: body weight, health-care, shoulder height, skin fold thickness

2015