Allostatic Load Indices With Cholesterol and Triglycerides Predict Disease and Mortality Risk in Zoo-Housed Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Authors: Ashley N Edes, Katie L Edwards, Barbara A Wolfe, Janine L Brown, Douglas E Crews

Publication/Journal: Biomarker Insights

Keywords: animal welfare, cardiac disease, chronic conditions, lipid markers, nonhuman primates

2020

Animal Welfare in Predator Control: Lessons from Land and Sea. How the Management of Terrestrial and Marine Mammals Impacts Wild Animal Welfare in Human–Wildlife Conflict Scenarios in Europe

Authors: Laetitia Nunny

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, human–wildlife conflict, pest, predator, welfare assessment, welfare domains, welfare impact, wildlife

2020

Blood L-Lactate Concentration as an Indicator of Outcome in Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) Admitted to a Wildlife Rescue Center

Authors: Elena Di Lorenzo, Riccardo Rossi, Fabiana Ferrari, Valeria Martini, Stefano Comazzi

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: biomarkers, blood lactate concentration, blood parameters, prognostic factors, roe deer

2020

Fecal stress, nutrition and reproductive hormones for monitoring environmental impacts on tigers (Panthera tigris)

Authors: Samrat Mondol, Rebecca K Booth, Samuel K %J Conservation Physiology Wasser

Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology

Keywords: adrenal, conservation physiology, stress-nutrition interplay, thyroid and reproductive hormones assay validation, tigers

2020

Monitoring glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations as a proxy of environmental stress across important life-history stages in captive african penguins

Authors: J Scheun, J Gulson, A Ganswindt

Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: adrenalcortical, African penguins, captive, glucocorticoids, non-invasive

2020

Reported livestock guarding dog-wildlife interactions: Implications for conservation and animal welfare

Authors: K Whitehouse-Tedd, R Wilkes, C Stannard, D Wettlaufer, D Cilliers

Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation

Keywords: agriculture, carnivore, coexistence, conflict, human-wildlife, predator control

2020

A Ten-Stage Protocol for Assessing the Welfare of Individual Non-Captive Wild Animals: Free-Roaming Horses (Equus Ferus Caballus) as an Example

Authors: Andrea M. Harvey, Ngaio J. Beausoleil, Daniel Ramp, David J. Mellor

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: feral, Five Domains, free-roaming, horses, welfare assessment, wild, wildlife

2020

Towards more compassionate wildlife research through the 3Rs principles: moving from invasive to non-invasive methods

Authors: Miriam A Zemanova

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Biology

Keywords: 3Rs principles, animal welfare, ecology, reduction, refinement, replacement

2020

Using faecal glucocorticoid metabolite analyses to elucidate stressors of African wild dogs Lycaon pictus from South Africa

Authors: Bruce Crossey, Christian Chimimba, Cole du Plessis, Grant Hall, Andre Ganswindt

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, body condition scoring, faecal glucocorticoid metabolite monitoring, managed metapopulation, stress, wildlife management

2020

Animal welfare complementing or conflicting with other sustainability issues

Authors: D. M. Broom

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: cows, domestic cats, emissions, greenhouse gases, placebo, road traffic accidents

2019