Assessment of season-dependent body condition scores in relation to faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in free-ranging Asian elephants

We studied seasonal and annual changes in visual body condition scores (BCSs), and assessed how these scores were related to levels of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites (fGCMs) in free-ranging Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the seasonally dry tropical forests of the Mysore and Nilgiri Elephant...

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Published in:Conserv Physiol
Main Authors: Pokharel, Sanjeeta Sharma, Seshagiri, Polani B., Sukumar, Raman
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508666/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28721215
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cox039
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