Salas Marina, Manteca Xavier, Abáigar Teresa, Delclaux Maria, Enseñat Conrad, Martínez-Nevado Eva, Quevedo Miguel Ángel, Fernández-Bellon Hugo
Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Crta.Sacramento, s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120 Almería, Spain.
Animals (Basel). 2018 Jul 5;8(7):111. doi: 10.3390/ani8070111.
There is a lack of protocols specifically developed for the assessment of welfare of wild animals in captivity, even when it is known that providing good standards of welfare is important. The aim of this study was the development and the application of a protocol for the assessment of welfare in captive dorcas gazelles. The protocol was mainly developed taking into account the protocol for the assessment of welfare in cattle from the Welfare Quality project, the available literature of the biology of this species and the Husbandry Guidelines developed for captive breeding and management of this species. The protocol was specifically developed for dorcas gazelles and included four principles, 10 criteria and 23 animal and environmental-based indicators. To test its utility, this protocol was applied to five different groups of gazelles from three different zoos. Its application made possible to detect areas for improvement in all groups assessed.
目前缺乏专门为评估圈养野生动物福利而制定的方案，即便人们已经知道提供良好的福利标准很重要。本研究的目的是制定并应用一种用于评估圈养小鹿瞪羚福利的方案。该方案主要是在考虑“福利质量”项目中牛福利评估方案、该物种生物学的现有文献以及为该物种圈养繁殖和管理制定的饲养指南的基础上制定的。该方案是专门为小鹿瞪羚制定的，包括四项原则、十条标准以及23项基于动物和环境的指标。为了测试其效用，该方案应用于来自三个不同动物园的五组不同的瞪羚。其应用使得在所有评估组中都能发现需要改进的方面。
