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Animal Welfare in Conservation Breeding: Applications and Challenges

Animal welfare and conservation breeding have overlapping and compatible goals that are occasionally divergent. Efforts to improve enclosures, provide enriching experiences, and address behavioral and physical needs further the causes of animal welfare in all zoo settings. However, by mitigating str...

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Autores principales: Greggor, Alison L., Vicino, Greg A., Swaisgood, Ronald R., Fidgett, Andrea, Brenner, Deena, Kinney, Matthew E., Farabaugh, Susan, Masuda, Bryce, Lamberski, Nadine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6315189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30631770
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2018.00323
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author Greggor, Alison L.
Vicino, Greg A.
Swaisgood, Ronald R.
Fidgett, Andrea
Brenner, Deena
Kinney, Matthew E.
Farabaugh, Susan
Masuda, Bryce
Lamberski, Nadine
author_facet Greggor, Alison L.
Vicino, Greg A.
Swaisgood, Ronald R.
Fidgett, Andrea
Brenner, Deena
Kinney, Matthew E.
Farabaugh, Susan
Masuda, Bryce
Lamberski, Nadine
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description Animal welfare and conservation breeding have overlapping and compatible goals that are occasionally divergent. Efforts to improve enclosures, provide enriching experiences, and address behavioral and physical needs further the causes of animal welfare in all zoo settings. However, by mitigating stress, increasing behavioral competence, and enhancing reproduction, health, and survival, conservation breeding programs must also focus on preparing animals for release into the wild. Therefore, conservation breeding facilities must strike a balance of promoting high welfare, while minimizing the effects of captivity to increase population sustainability. As part of the Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program, San Diego Zoo Global operates two captive breeding facilities that house a number of endangered Hawaiian bird species. At our facilities we aim to increase captive animal welfare through husbandry, nutrition, behavior-based enrichment, and integrated veterinary practices. These efforts help foster a captive environment that promotes the development of species-typical behaviors. By using the “Opportunities to Thrive” guiding principles, we outline an outcome-based welfare strategy, and detail some of the related management inputs, such as transitioning to parental rearing, and conducting veterinary exams remotely. Throughout we highlight our evidence-based approach for evaluating our practices, by monitoring welfare and the effectiveness of our inputs. Additionally we focus on some of the unique challenges associated with improving welfare in conservation breeding facilitates and outline concrete future steps for improving and evaluating welfare outcomes that also meet conservation goals.
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spelling pubmed-63151892019-01-10 Animal Welfare in Conservation Breeding: Applications and Challenges Greggor, Alison L. Vicino, Greg A. Swaisgood, Ronald R. Fidgett, Andrea Brenner, Deena Kinney, Matthew E. Farabaugh, Susan Masuda, Bryce Lamberski, Nadine Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Animal welfare and conservation breeding have overlapping and compatible goals that are occasionally divergent. Efforts to improve enclosures, provide enriching experiences, and address behavioral and physical needs further the causes of animal welfare in all zoo settings. However, by mitigating stress, increasing behavioral competence, and enhancing reproduction, health, and survival, conservation breeding programs must also focus on preparing animals for release into the wild. Therefore, conservation breeding facilities must strike a balance of promoting high welfare, while minimizing the effects of captivity to increase population sustainability. As part of the Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program, San Diego Zoo Global operates two captive breeding facilities that house a number of endangered Hawaiian bird species. At our facilities we aim to increase captive animal welfare through husbandry, nutrition, behavior-based enrichment, and integrated veterinary practices. These efforts help foster a captive environment that promotes the development of species-typical behaviors. By using the “Opportunities to Thrive” guiding principles, we outline an outcome-based welfare strategy, and detail some of the related management inputs, such as transitioning to parental rearing, and conducting veterinary exams remotely. Throughout we highlight our evidence-based approach for evaluating our practices, by monitoring welfare and the effectiveness of our inputs. Additionally we focus on some of the unique challenges associated with improving welfare in conservation breeding facilitates and outline concrete future steps for improving and evaluating welfare outcomes that also meet conservation goals. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6315189/ /pubmed/30631770 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2018.00323 Text en Copyright © 2018 Greggor, Vicino, Swaisgood, Fidgett, Brenner, Kinney, Farabaugh, Masuda and Lamberski. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Swaisgood, Ronald R.
Fidgett, Andrea
Brenner, Deena
Kinney, Matthew E.
Farabaugh, Susan
Masuda, Bryce
Lamberski, Nadine
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