Faecal Cortisol Metabolites as an Indicator of Adrenocortical Activity in Farmed Blue Foxes

• Published in: Animals
• Main Authors: Ojala, Eeva A., Kurkilahti, Mika, Hovland, Anne Lene, Palme, Rupert, Mononen, Jaakko
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: Article; Eia; Vulpes lagopus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470140/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34573597; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11092631

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The measurement of faecal cortisol metabolites (FCMs) is increasingly used to monitor physiological stress responses in different animal species. Before this method is applied in coming stress- and welfare-related studies of farmed blue foxes (Vulpes lagopus), a species-specific vali...