Captivity effects on wide-ranging carnivores
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Elephants do not fare well in captivity.
“do not fare well in captivity (Clubb & Mason, 2003;Morgan & Tromborg, 2007;Mason, 2010;Fischer & Romero, 2018).”
From Continuing challenges of elephant captivity: the captive environment, health issues, and welfare implications (2024) · cites this paper as Clubb & Mason, 2003
The opening passage (p. 1) says Asian elephants are prone to poor health, stereotypic behaviour and breeding difficulties in captivity. It does not establish the claim for elephants generally; the paper’s own investigation focuses on carnivores. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredForaging is often regarded as a high priority behavior, an internally motivated behavioral pattern that should be performed, or otherwise may induce a state of chronic stress, which may result in behavioral pathology like ARBs as described in many other animal species.
“Foraging is often regarded as a high priority behavior [75,76], i.e., an internally motivated behavioral pattern that should be performed, or otherwise may induce a state of chronic stress, which may result in behavioral pathology like ARBs as described in many other animal species [77,78,79].”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredCommon examples of stereotypies include self-scratching or self-mutilatory behaviour in primates, pacing in carnivores, and oral stereotypies such as non-food object licking in ungulates.
“However, some common examples include self-scratching or self-mutilatory behaviour in primates [54,55,56], pacing in carnivores [57] and oral stereotypies, such as non-food object licking in ungulates [58].”
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- Authors
- Clubb, R., & Mason, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mason, Georgia
- ORCID
- Mason, Georgia
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 425
- Issue
- 6957
- Pages
- 473-474
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2072363405
- Cited by
- 430
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 14.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- The Atrium (University of Guelph) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Veterinary › Small Animals › Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Keywords
- captive animal welfare, stereotypy, range of motion, infant mortality, zoo animals, Lemur catta, snow leopard, Asian elephant, polar bear
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animal Husbandry, Animal Welfare, Animals, Zoo, Body Weight, Carnivora, Housing, Animal, Stress, Physiological, Animal Migration
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