Defining animal welfare standards in hunting: body mass determines thresholds for incapacitation time and flight distance
| Autor: | Scott M. Brainerd, Arne Söderberg, Sigbjørn Stokke, Morten Kraabøl, Jon M. Arnemo, Bjørnar Ytrehus |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Firearms Operations research Computer science Animal Culling Forensic Ballistics Wildlife Foxes lcsh:Medicine Animals Wild Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 [VDP] Animal Welfare 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Article Body Mass Index 03 medical and health sciences Escape Reaction Animal welfare Animals Rifle lcsh:Science Flight distance Multidisciplinary Animal Welfare (journal) Deer lcsh:R Models Theoretical Wound ballistics 030104 developmental biology lcsh:Q Ursidae |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2018) |
| Popis: | Shooting is an important tool for managing terrestrial wildlife populations worldwide. To date, however, there has been few quantitative methods available enabling assessment of the animal welfare outcomes of rifle hunting. We apply a variety of factors to model flight distance (distance travelled by an animal after bullet impact) and incapacitation from the moment of bullet impact. These factors include body mass, allometric and isometric scaling, comparative physiology, wound ballistics and linear kinematics. This approach provides for the first time a method for quantifying and grading the quality of shooting processes by examining only body mass and flight distance. Our model is a universally applicable tool for measuring animal welfare outcomes of shooting regimes both within and among species. For management agencies the model should be a practical tool for monitoring and evaluating animal welfare outcomes regarding shooting of mammalian populations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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