Captive and domestic animals are often required to engage in physical activity initiated or organised by humans, which may impact their body temperature, with consequences for their health and welfare. This is a particular concern for animals such as elephants that face therm...
- 《Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science》 被引量: 84发表: 2007年 Nature and extent of human–elephant Elephas maximus conflict in central Nepal Humanelephant conflict is one of the main threats to the long-term survival of the Asian elephant Elephas maximus. We studied the nature and ...
Obesity has a negative effect on health and welfare of many species, and has been speculated to be a problem for zoo elephants. To address this concern, we assessed the body condition of 240 elephants housed in North American zoos based ... V Vanitha 被引量: 12发表: 2007年 Brief Report...
high individual variability, and interrelated complex metabolic processes (Ashley,2007; Carbonara et al.,2020; Martos-Sitcha et al.,2020; Toni et al.,2019; Zheng et al.,2021). There is not even one single measure for proof of welfare, but several and the most recognized indicators are im...
Department for Work and Pensions or DWP awarded MAXIMUS a new large contract to provide health and disability assessment services. We're already hard at work and in the midst of a four-month transition and mobilization period. Program takeover will be March 1, 2015, followed by 36 months of...
In order to improve health and welfare in the rearing of these animals, several alternatives such as improving husbandry nutrition, water quality, lowering stocking densities, using vaccines, non-specific immunostimulants (Figueras et al.1997) and bacterial probiotics such as lactic acid bacteria (...
The effects of flow rate on growth and welfare of juvenile turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.) were investigated in the present study. Fish with same initial weight (102.5 ± 10.6 g) were subjected to four flow rates, equalling to 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2 tank volumes per hour in twelve 392 L ...
The principal components analysis suggested that increased flow rate promoted fish welfare. It was concluded that increased flow rate promoted the growth of juvenile turbot, possibly explained by fish welfare differences in combination of health, water quality and serum parameters....
If cortisol concentrations are being used to evaluate elephant health or welfare, samples should be obtained at the same time each day to minimize variation due to diurnal fluctuations, and ideally seasonal variations and individuality in diurnal profiles should also be considered....
The elephant welfare improvement is one of the major components to achieve sustainable captive management. Microbiome inhabiting digestive tracts have been shown with symbiotic relations to host health. This work provided high-resolution microbiome profiles of 32 captive elephants at a species level by ...