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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Unidades Centrais.
Data corrente: | 17/02/2016
Data da última atualização: | 17/02/2016
Autoria: | PIZZUTTO, C. S.; SGAI, M. G. F. G.; LOPES, D. A.; PESSUTTI, C.; NUNES, A.; FURTADO, P. V.; OLIVEIRA, C. A. de; GUIMARÃES, M A. B. V.
Afiliação: | CRISTIANE S. PIZZUTTO, Shape Brasil; MANUELA G. F. G. SGAI, Shape Brasil; DANIELLE A. LOPES, UNESP; CECÍLIA PESSUTTI, Sorocaba Zoo; ADAUTO NUNES, Sorocaba Zoo; PRISCILA V. FURTADO, USP; CLÁUDIO A. DE OLIVEIRA, USP; MARCELO A. B. V. GUIMARÃES, USP.
Título: | Relation between the level of self-mutilation and the concentration of fecal metabolites of gluccorticoids in
Ano de publicação: | 2015
Fonte/Imprenta: | Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, Brasília, DF, v. 35, n.1, p.62-66, jan. 2015.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | The influence of stress in an environment, according with the behavioral and endocrine variables of primates, are increasingly being studied by a diversity of authors, and have shown that abnormal behaviors associated with increased glucocorticoids may be directly related with the impairment of their well-being. In this work were used 22 adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), 11 males and 11 females, kept in captivity in three different institutions. All animals had their behavior registered by focal session using a 30 seconds sample interval, during six months, totaling 4,800 registries per each animal. During this period, fecal samples were collected 3 times a week for the extraction and measurement of the concentration of fecal metabolites of glucocorticoid by radioimmunoassay. Of the total observed, stereotypical behaviors represented 13,45±2.76%, and among them, self-mutilation represented 38.28±3.98 %. The animals were classified into three different scores, according with the percentage of body surface with alopecia due to self-mutilation. It was found a positive correlation of high intensity between the scores of alopecia due to the observed mutilation and the average concentrations of fecal metabolites of glucocorticoids. This result strongly suggests that this measurement of self-mutilation in a chimpanzee can be used as an important auxiliary tool to evaluate de conditions of adaptation of an animal in captivity, functioning as a direct indicator of the presence of chronic stress.
Palavras-Chave: | Automutilação; Cativeiro; Chimpanzé; Chimpanzees; Glucocorticoid fecal metabolites; Metabólitos fecal de glicocorticóides; Self-mutilation.
Thesaurus Nal: | Captive animals; Pan troglodytes.
Categoria do assunto: | --
URL: | http://ainfo.cnptia.embrapa.br/digital/bitstream/item/139193/1/Relation-between-the-level.pdf
Registro original: | Embrapa Unidades Centrais (AI-SEDE)
Exemplares: | AI-SEDE - (58806-1) - UPE - AP - PP - 636.08905 - P474 -  - DIS