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SUBMITTER: Maher CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8614556 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maher Chloe J CJ Gibson Angela A Dixon Laura M LM Bacon Heather H
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20211029 11
Animal welfare assessments are essential for the identification of welfare hazards and benchmarking of welfare improvements, though welfare assessments for zoo species are lacking. Bears are commonly housed in zoos but currently no composite welfare assessment tool exists for captive bears. This study describes the development of such a tool for use across hibernating bear species. A draft tool was developed using indicators derived from the literature and a modified Delphi analysis with an inte ...[more]