Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement.
Measuring immediate physiological stress responses in animals can be challenging; saliva and blood sampling, while invasive, may also generate confounding stress responses, and equipping animals with heart rate sensors is not always feasible. Nevertheless, emerging technologies offer a non-invasive...
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ftdans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:339579 2024-05-12T08:10:19+00:00 Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement. Liehrmann, O (via Mendeley Data) 2024-04-12T09:02:01.988Z http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-ad-40ix https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:339579 unknown 1 8c3xwnxwzv http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-ad-40ix doi:10.17632/8c3xwnxwzv.1 https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:339579 OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf Océane Liehrmann Interdisciplinary sciences 2024 ftdans https://doi.org/10.17632/8c3xwnxwzv.1 2024-04-17T14:28:32Z Measuring immediate physiological stress responses in animals can be challenging; saliva and blood sampling, while invasive, may also generate confounding stress responses, and equipping animals with heart rate sensors is not always feasible. Nevertheless, emerging technologies offer a non-invasive and contactless method to measure additional body surface temperature changes induced by acute stress, using infrared thermal measurement of the eye caruncle region. Contactless temperature measurement has the potential to assess the emotional state of animals affected by human physical contact. Reindeer, being highly sensitive to touch and naturally avoiding physical contact, exemplify this case. With growing interest in safari tours involving sledging reindeer, there is a need to investigate how these animals are affected by human interactions and how they adapt to daily close contact. In this pilot experiment, we evaluated the efficacy of thermal imaging in measuring medial canthus temperature fluctuations in non-habituated sledging reindeer while being petted by unfamiliar humans. Our findings support the hypothesis that medial canthus temperature significantly decreases during petting and increases once the interaction ceases, aligning with established stress response patterns found in the literature. This pilot experiment underscores the potential of infrared thermal imaging for non-invasively monitoring physiological responses to stress in tamed reindeer. Moreover, it sets the foundation for refining methodologies and experimental designs using infrared thermal imaging in animal welfare research. THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOVE Other/Unknown Material Rangifer tarandus Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): EASY (KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) |
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Measuring immediate physiological stress responses in animals can be challenging; saliva and blood sampling, while invasive, may also generate confounding stress responses, and equipping animals with heart rate sensors is not always feasible. Nevertheless, emerging technologies offer a non-invasive and contactless method to measure additional body surface temperature changes induced by acute stress, using infrared thermal measurement of the eye caruncle region. Contactless temperature measurement has the potential to assess the emotional state of animals affected by human physical contact. Reindeer, being highly sensitive to touch and naturally avoiding physical contact, exemplify this case. With growing interest in safari tours involving sledging reindeer, there is a need to investigate how these animals are affected by human interactions and how they adapt to daily close contact. In this pilot experiment, we evaluated the efficacy of thermal imaging in measuring medial canthus temperature fluctuations in non-habituated sledging reindeer while being petted by unfamiliar humans. Our findings support the hypothesis that medial canthus temperature significantly decreases during petting and increases once the interaction ceases, aligning with established stress response patterns found in the literature. This pilot experiment underscores the potential of infrared thermal imaging for non-invasively monitoring physiological responses to stress in tamed reindeer. Moreover, it sets the foundation for refining methodologies and experimental designs using infrared thermal imaging in animal welfare research. THIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOVE |
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Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement. |
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Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement. |
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Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement. |
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Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement. |
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Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement. |
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enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (rangifer tarandus): a pilot study on infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement. |
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2024 |
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Rangifer tarandus |
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OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf Océane Liehrmann |
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