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Defining animal welfare standards in hunting: body mass determines thresholds for incapacitation time and flight distance

Shooting is an important tool for managing terrestrial wildlife populations worldwide. To date, however, there has been few quantitative methods available enabling assessment of the animal welfare outcomes of rifle hunting. We apply a variety of factors to model flight distance (distance travelled b...

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Autores principales: Stokke, Sigbjørn, Arnemo, Jon M., Brainerd, Scott, Söderberg, Arne, Kraabøl, Morten, Ytrehus, Bjørnar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32102-0