Evaluating Potential Cetacean Welfare Indicators from Video of Live Stranded Long-Finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melas edwardii)

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Evaluating Potential Cetacean Welfare Indicators from Video of Live Stranded Long-Finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melas edwardii)

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Despite the known benefit of considering welfare within wildlife conservation and management, there remains a lack of data to inform such evaluations. To assess animal welfare, relevant information must be captured scientifically and systematically. A key first step is identifying potential indicators of welfare and the practicality of their measurement. We assessed the feasibility of evaluating potential welfare indicators from opportunistically gathered video footage of four stranded odonto...

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2022-07-21

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Boys RM / Beausoleil NJ / Pawley MDM / Betty EL / Stockin KA

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/70502

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animal welfare assessment / behaviour / cetacean / human intervention / management / marine mammal / stranding / wildlife

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