Wenlei Bi, Songrui Liu, Michael P O'Connor, Jacob R Owens, Marc T Valitutto, Rong Hou, Dunwu Qi, Lee-Ann Collins Hayek, Fanqi Wu, Rui Ma, Jiabin Liu, Yanshan Zhou, Long Zhang, Ramana Callan, Li Luo, Wenjun Huang, Zhihe Zhang, James R Spotila
Physiological indexes like blood parameters have been widely used to monitor the health of free-roaming animals. Attempts to reintroduce one of China's most endangered species, the giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ), have been hampered by a lack of data on its ecology and physiology. We examined three giant pandas' hematological and blood chemistry parameters in a soft release program and 30 captive giant pandas as controls and determined the reference intervals (RIs) for those blood parameters in the captive animals...
2024: Conservation Physiology