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The fat-tailed dunnart is a small dasyurid marsupial which is emerging as a robust laboratory model for conservation, developmental, and reproductive biology research. While these marsupials present extremely valuable models, housing non-domesticated animals in captivity can present a wide range of potential stressors for the animals, which need to be managed to ensure colony health. Notably, dunnarts rely on scent marking for social communication, which is important to maintain to reduce stress in artificial environments.Results
In this study, we examine captive management techniques and provide updated recommendations which consider both scientific and conservation outcomes. Through ongoing management, we observe that recapitulating aspects of a natural environ"],"journal":["Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists"],"pubmed_title":["Breeding fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) in captivity: Revised practices to minimize stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild biology."],"pmcid":["PMC11809136"],"funding_grant_id":["DP210102645"],"pubmed_authors":["D'Souza G","Newton AH","Scicluna EL","Hutchison JC","Fanson KV","Whitehead S","Pask AJ","Dimovski AM"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Breeding fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) in captivity: Revised practices to minimize stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild biology.","description":"Background
The fat-tailed dunnart is a small dasyurid marsupial which is emerging as a robust laboratory model for conservation, developmental, and reproductive biology research. While these marsupials present extremely valuable models, housing non-domesticated animals in captivity can present a wide range of potential stressors for the animals, which need to be managed to ensure colony health. Notably, dunnarts rely on scent marking for social communication, which is important to maintain to reduce stress in artificial environments.Results
In this study, we examine captive management techniques and provide updated recommendations which consider both scientific and conservation outcomes. Through ongoing management, we observe that recapitulating aspects of a natural environ","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Feb","modification":"2025-04-25T17:53:06.245Z","creation":"2025-04-25T17:53:06.245Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11809136","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39895010"],"doi":["10.1002/dvdy.755"]}}