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UNDERSTANDING THE INDIVIDUAL IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

Animal Welfare Program: Liv Baker. UNDERSTANDING THE INDIVIDUAL IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION. WHO AN ANIMAL IS AFFECTS TRANSLOCATION SUCCESS Case Study: An endangered species of desert rodent, Dipodomys stephensi. Animal Welfare Program . CONSERVATION.

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UNDERSTANDING THE INDIVIDUAL IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

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  1. Animal Welfare Program: Liv Baker UNDERSTANDING THE INDIVIDUAL IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION WHO AN ANIMAL IS AFFECTS TRANSLOCATION SUCCESS Case Study: An endangered species of desert rodent, Dipodomysstephensi

  2. Animal Welfare Program CONSERVATION • Developed through concerns of loss of wilderness • Focus on health of populations, species and overall ecosystem biodiversity ~ NOT on the welfare of the individual • Changes in the intensification of conservation programs warrant a reevaluation of this focus • Translocation demands the direct care and management of free-ranging animals as a means to species survival

  3. Animal Welfare Program TRANSLOCATION • Deliberate and mediated movement of free-ranging animals • Common conservation practice to combat species loss • Popular among stakeholders • 50-95% mortality rate

  4. Animal Welfare Program FACE OF MORTALITY

  5. Animal Welfare Program CAPTURE

  6. Animal Welfare Program HANDLING/ EXAMINATION

  7. Animal Welfare Program CAPTIVITY

  8. Animal Welfare Program NOVELENVIRONMENT

  9. Animal Welfare Program MONITORING

  10. Animal Welfare Program TRANSLOCATION SUCCESS? Where When ? How Why

  11. Animal Welfare Program TRANSLOCATION SUCCESS? WHO?

  12. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT Southern California Nocturnal Ricochetal Semi-fossorial Quasi-solitary Granivorous Keystone species Endangered (1988)

  13. Animal Welfare Program SUBURBANIZATION

  14. Animal Welfare Program CULTIVATION

  15. Animal Welfare Program INVASIVE GRASSES

  16. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT • METHODOLOGY: Personality Profile • Demographic information • Fecal cortisol levels • Captive activity budgets • Social context responses

  17. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT • FINDINGS • Home environment matters • Cortisol matters • Activity level matters • Behavioural response matters

  18. Animal Welfare Program Parking lot Fallow vineyard (El Sol)

  19. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT

  20. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT • FINDINGS • Home environment matters • Cortisol matters • Activity level matters • Behaviouralresponse matters

  21. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT

  22. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT

  23. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT • FINDINGS • Home environment matters • Cortisol matters • Activity level matters • Behavioural response matters

  24. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT *

  25. Animal Welfare Program STEPHENS’ KANGAROO RAT • FINDINGS • Home environment matters • Cortisol matters • Activity level matters • Behavioural response matters

  26. Animal Welfare Program Parking lot SKR El Sol SKR Predator simulation Moreinteraction with predator stimuli Greaterattempts at escape Less time spent at refuge (Experienced behaved the same) Conspecific simulation Less interaction with mirror Slowerto interact with mirror Predator simulation • Less interaction with predator stimuli • Fewer attempts at escape • More time spent at refuge • (Except for experienced SKR) Conspecific simulation • More interaction with mirror • Quicker to interact with mirror

  27. Animal Welfare Program WHO SURVIVES? • Cortisol activity reactivity • More Docile • More Cautious • More Social • More Plastic

  28. Animal Welfare Program Compassionate Conservation

  29. Animal Welfare Program: Liv Baker THANKS TO For Guidance: David Fraser, UBC Debra Shier, ICR; UCLA Matt R. Milnes, MHC; ICR Jeff Zuba, ICR For Assistance: Tom Ash Nancy Chen Michael Lawrence Chris Moen Matthew Petelle Christina Tse Mary Toews Sean Kuling For Funding: Riverside County Habitat Conservation Agency Killam Foundation

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