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Walking Behavior of Zoo Elephants: Associations between GPS-Measured Daily Walking Distances and Environmental Factors, Social Factors, and Welfare Indicators
Research with humans and other animals suggests that walking benefits physical health. Perhaps because these links have been demonstrated in other species, it has been suggested that walking is important to elephant welfare, and that zoo elephant exhibits should be designed to allow for more walking...
Autores principales: | Holdgate, Matthew R., Meehan, Cheryl L., Hogan, Jennifer N., Miller, Lance J., Soltis, Joseph, Andrews, Jeff, Shepherdson, David J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944962/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27414411 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150331 |
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