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dc.contributor.author | Grundei, Lara-Luisa![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Wolf, Tanja Esther![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Brandes, Florian![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Schütte, Karolin![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Freise, Fritjof![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Siebert, Ursula![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Touma, Chadi![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Pees, Michael![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-01T11:08:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-01T11:08:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-04-02 | |
dc.description | This article belongs to the Special Issue titled 'Behavioural Endocrinology: Applications for Wildlife Management'. | en_US |
dc.description | DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT : All raw data is provided in the Appendix A and Supplementary Materials. | en_US |
dc.description | SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL : TABLE S1: Results of blood examination (n = 6) in female (F1, F2, F3) and male (M1, M2, M3) animals, TABLE S2: Results of X-rays for female (F1, F2, F3) and male (M1, M2, M3) animals (n = 6). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | For wild animals, being in captivity in wildlife centers can cause considerable stress. Therefore, it is necessary to establish and validate non-invasive tools to measure chronic stress during rehabilitation. Eight Common Buzzards which lived in permanent husbandry were placed individually into prepared aviaries and their feces were collected before, during and after a stress event for biological validation over a period of seven days. The extracted fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (fGCMs) were analyzed with three different enzyme immune assays (EIA) to find the most suitable one. Additionally, we aimed to investigate the stability of fGCM levels after defecation because further metabolization by bacterial enzymes can lead to changed results. The Cortisone-EIA performed best in males and females and showed that the stress event led to an fGCM increase of 629% (557% in females and 702% in males) in relation to basal values. We found no significant differences between the sexes, but observed significant differences between different times of day. FGCM concentration significantly changed after eight hours at room temperature. Our study successfully validated the non-invasive measurement of fGCM as a stress indicator in Common Buzzards and could therefore lay the foundation for future studies providing new insights for animal welfare research in Buzzards. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Mammal Research Institute | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | SDG-03:Good heatlh and well-being | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | SDG-15:Life on land | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Verein der Förderer der Wildtierforschung and the Deutscher Falkenorden. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Grundei, L.-L.; Wolf, T.E.; Brandes, F.; Schütte, K.; Freise, F.; Siebert, U.; Touma, C.; Pees, M. Validation of Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites as Non-Invasive Markers for Monitoring Stress in Common Buzzards (Buteo buteo). Animals 2024, 14, 1234. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14081234. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2076-2615 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.3390/ani14081234 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97400 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | en_US |
dc.subject | Hormone | en_US |
dc.subject | Behavior | en_US |
dc.subject | Rehabilitation | en_US |
dc.subject | Animal welfare | en_US |
dc.subject | Bird of prey | en_US |
dc.subject | Wildlife | en_US |
dc.subject | Corticosterone | en_US |
dc.subject | Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (fGCM) | en_US |
dc.subject | Stress | en_US |
dc.subject | Common buzzards (Buteo buteo) | en_US |
dc.subject | Enzyme immune assays (EIA) | en_US |
dc.subject | SDG-03: Good health and well-being | en_US |
dc.subject | SDG-15: Life on land | en_US |
dc.title | Validation of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites as non-invasive markers for monitoring stress in common buzzards (Buteo buteo) | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |