Feather Corticosterone Measurements of Greater Flamingos Living under Different Forms of Flight Restraint

Feather Corticosterone Measurements of Greater Flamingos Living under Different Forms of Flight Restraint

Deflighting zoo birds is a practice that receives increasing criticism due to its presumed incompatibility with animal welfare. To our knowledge, this is the first approach to address this problem in a scientific way. To do this, we compared feather corticosterone (CORTf) from Greater Flamingos (<...

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Main Authors: Lukas Reese, Katrin Baumgartner, Lorenzo von Fersen, Roswitha Merle, Mechthild Ladwig-Wiegard, Hermann Will, Gudrun Haase, Oriol Tallo-Parra, Annaïs Carbajal, Manel Lopez-Bejar, Christa Thöne-Reineke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
feather corticosterone
animal welfare
Greater Flamingo
deflighting
pinioning
bird
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/4/605

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