Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care
Circulating cortisol levels are accepted as a sensitive indicator of acute stress in marine mammals, particularly in relation with capture and handling. The present study provides the first long-term monitoring of cortisol levels in four harbour porpoises held in human care—an adult male and adult f...
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/33173 2023-05-15T16:33:27+02:00 Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care Desportes, Geneviève Buholzer, Lisette Anderson-Hansen, Kirstin Blanchet, Marie-Anne Acquarone, Mario Shephard, Gwyneth Brando, Sabrina Vossen, Arndt Siebert, Ursula Fjord & Bælt Centre Independent University of Kiel orcid:0000-0002-4283-3444 2007 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33173 https://doi.org/10.1578/am.33.3.2007.286 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/ba420424-ff4c-4c84-9211-707bf6c92475/Desportes%20G%20et%20al%202007%20Decrease%20Stress%20Train%20Your%20Animals.pdf en eng Aquatic Mammals Journal Desportes G, Buholzer L, Anderson-Hansen K, Blanchet M, Acquarone M, Shephard G, Brando S, Vossen A & Siebert U (2007) Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care. Aquatic Mammals, 33 (3), pp. 286-292. https://doi.org/10.1578/am.33.3.2007.286 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33173 doi:10.1578/am.33.3.2007.286 1697653 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/ba420424-ff4c-4c84-9211-707bf6c92475/Desportes%20G%20et%20al%202007%20Decrease%20Stress%20Train%20Your%20Animals.pdf Publisher policy allows this work to be made available in this repository. Published in Aquatic Mammals, 33(3), 286-292 by European Association for Aquatic Mammals. The original publication is available at: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.33.3.2007.286 Harbour porpoise North Sea Phocoena phocoena cortisol levels human care handling methods voluntary husbandry behaviours Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2007 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.1578/am.33.3.2007.286 2022-06-13T18:43:27Z Circulating cortisol levels are accepted as a sensitive indicator of acute stress in marine mammals, particularly in relation with capture and handling. The present study provides the first long-term monitoring of cortisol levels in four harbour porpoises held in human care—an adult male and adult female and two juvenile females. It also compares levels in blood obtained after removing the animal from the water (OWR sampling) with levels in blood obtained at poolside under voluntary husbandry behaviours (VHB sampling). Cortisol levels differed significantly between the four porpoises, although they all exhibited quite high variations in cortisol levels, with averages of 64.9 and 70.5 μg/l in the adult male and female, respectively, and 90.7 and 51.4 μg/l in the juvenile females. OWR sampling induced significantly higher cortisol levels than VHB sampling, with a dramatic threefold decrease in circulating cortisol levels obtained under VHB sampling compared to levels obtained under OWR sampling (16.6 and 20.2 μg/l compared with 64.9 and 70.5 μg/l in the adult male and female respectively). Even if the porpoises showed some habituation to handling, regular and frequent handling over several years did not suppress a significant stress response in the porpoises when they were removed from the water, pointing to the advantage of using VHB for limiting stress in husbandry practices. Article in Journal/Newspaper Harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Four Harbour ENVELOPE(-55.731,-55.731,51.183,51.183) Aquatic Mammals 33 3 286 292 |
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Harbour porpoise North Sea Phocoena phocoena cortisol levels human care handling methods voluntary husbandry behaviours Desportes, Geneviève Buholzer, Lisette Anderson-Hansen, Kirstin Blanchet, Marie-Anne Acquarone, Mario Shephard, Gwyneth Brando, Sabrina Vossen, Arndt Siebert, Ursula Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care |
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Circulating cortisol levels are accepted as a sensitive indicator of acute stress in marine mammals, particularly in relation with capture and handling. The present study provides the first long-term monitoring of cortisol levels in four harbour porpoises held in human care—an adult male and adult female and two juvenile females. It also compares levels in blood obtained after removing the animal from the water (OWR sampling) with levels in blood obtained at poolside under voluntary husbandry behaviours (VHB sampling). Cortisol levels differed significantly between the four porpoises, although they all exhibited quite high variations in cortisol levels, with averages of 64.9 and 70.5 μg/l in the adult male and female, respectively, and 90.7 and 51.4 μg/l in the juvenile females. OWR sampling induced significantly higher cortisol levels than VHB sampling, with a dramatic threefold decrease in circulating cortisol levels obtained under VHB sampling compared to levels obtained under OWR sampling (16.6 and 20.2 μg/l compared with 64.9 and 70.5 μg/l in the adult male and female respectively). Even if the porpoises showed some habituation to handling, regular and frequent handling over several years did not suppress a significant stress response in the porpoises when they were removed from the water, pointing to the advantage of using VHB for limiting stress in husbandry practices. |
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Desportes, Geneviève Buholzer, Lisette Anderson-Hansen, Kirstin Blanchet, Marie-Anne Acquarone, Mario Shephard, Gwyneth Brando, Sabrina Vossen, Arndt Siebert, Ursula |
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Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care |
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Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care |
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Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care |
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Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care |
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Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care |
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decrease stress; train your animals: the effect of handling methods on cortisol levels in harbour porpoises (phocoena phocoena) under human care |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33173 https://doi.org/10.1578/am.33.3.2007.286 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/ba420424-ff4c-4c84-9211-707bf6c92475/Desportes%20G%20et%20al%202007%20Decrease%20Stress%20Train%20Your%20Animals.pdf |
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Desportes G, Buholzer L, Anderson-Hansen K, Blanchet M, Acquarone M, Shephard G, Brando S, Vossen A & Siebert U (2007) Decrease Stress; Train Your Animals: The Effect of Handling Methods on Cortisol Levels in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) Under Human Care. Aquatic Mammals, 33 (3), pp. 286-292. https://doi.org/10.1578/am.33.3.2007.286 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33173 doi:10.1578/am.33.3.2007.286 1697653 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/ba420424-ff4c-4c84-9211-707bf6c92475/Desportes%20G%20et%20al%202007%20Decrease%20Stress%20Train%20Your%20Animals.pdf |
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Publisher policy allows this work to be made available in this repository. Published in Aquatic Mammals, 33(3), 286-292 by European Association for Aquatic Mammals. The original publication is available at: https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.33.3.2007.286 |
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