Marking wildlife under natural conditions : visual skin autograft as a new method for marking king penguins

• Main Author: Netchaieff, Marguerite
• Other Authors: Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT), Yves Lignereux
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: Visual marking; Flipper-band; Skin autograft; King Penguin; Manchot royal; Marque visuelle; Bague; Piercing; Greffe cutanée; Aptenodytes patagonicus; Anas platyrhynchos; Melopsittacus undulatus; [SDV.BA.MVSA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Veterinary medicine and animal Health; Manchot; Manchots; Antarc*; Antarctique*; King Penguins
• Online Access: https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-04548807; https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-04548807/document; https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-04548807/file/Netchaieff_12270.pdf

For decades, huge increase of knowledge has been made on penguins’ biology and environment, thanks to the monitoring of the populations. Visual marks are useful tools. They are adapted to suit the studies’ objectives but also and mainly to fit the birds’ distinctive features, especially their adapta...