Behavioural and corticosterone responses to capture and confinement of wild blackbirds (Turdus merula)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 134, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 246-255

  Adams, Nigel J ^a   Farnworth, Mark J ^a   Rickett, Jennifer ^b   Parker, Kevin A ^c   Cockrem, John F ^d  

^a UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Captive birds; Reintroduction; Stress; Temperament; Translocation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BLOOD; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CAPTIVITY; CAPTURE METHOD; HABITUATION; HORMONE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LOCOMOTION; PASSERINE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REINTRODUCTION; STARVATION; STEROL; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION; VOCALIZATION; WILD POPULATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AVES; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 80053251953     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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