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Introduction to the Special Issue: Assessing the environmental adaptation of wildlife and production animals: Applications of physiological indices and welfare assessment tools
Animals, Vol.10(12), pp.1-3
03/12/2020
PMCID: PMC7761720
PMID: 33287175
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Abstract
Wild animals under human care as well as domesticated farm production animals are often exposed to environmental changes (e.g., capture and transportation). Short-term or acute changes in physiological indices (e.g., heart rate, respiration, body temperatures, immune cells and stress hormonal biomarkers) provide crucial information regarding the responses of animals to novel environments, and they could provide crucial determining factors for evaluating the long-term health and welfare of animals. The goal of this special issue is to provide examples of new research and techniques that can be used to monitor short- and long-term environmental adaptation of animals under human care. Examples of research include applications of physiological indices and welfare assessment methods (e.g., morphological and morphometric data, behavioural assessments, thermal profiles and physiological markers) in any wildlife or production animal (e.g., rescued and rehabilitating animals, pets, competition animals, farm animals and zoo animals), in response to environmental and management-related factors.
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- Title
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Assessing the environmental adaptation of wildlife and production animals: Applications of physiological indices and welfare assessment tools
- Creators
- Edward Narayan - University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- Animals, Vol.10(12), pp.1-3
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Number of pages
- 3
- Identifiers
- 991013269209702368
- Copyright
- © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article