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SUBMITTER: Seltmann MW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7023510 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seltmann Martin W MW Ukonaho Susanna S Reichert Sophie S Dos Santos Diogo D Nyein U Kyaw UK Htut Win W Lummaa Virpi V
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200106 1
Animals are kept in captivity for various reasons, but species with a slower pace of life may adapt to captive environments less easily, leading to welfare concerns and the need to assess stress reliably in order to develop effective interventions. Our aim was to assess welfare of semi-captive timber elephants from Myanmar by investigating the relationship between two physiological markers of stress commonly used as proxies for welfare, faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations (FGM) and h ...[more]