Physiological stress response of captive white-tailed deer to video collars

Remington J. Moll; Joshua J. Millspaugh; Jeff Beringer; Joel Sartwell; Rami J. Woods; Kurt C. Vercauteren

doi:10.2193/2008-266

Physiological stress response of captive white-tailed deer to video collars

Remington J. Moll, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Jeff Beringer, Joel Sartwell, Rami J. Woods, Kurt C. Vercauteren

W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation

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Abstract

Animal-borne video and environmental data collection systems (AVEDs) are an advanced form of biotelemetry that combines video with other sensors. As a proxy for physiological stress, we assessed fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) excretion in 7 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fitted with AVED dummy collars; 9 additional deer served as controls. We collected fecal samples over 3 2-week periods: pretreatment, treatment, and posttreatment periods. There were no differences in FGMs across time periods (F2,218 1.94, P 0.147) and no difference between FGMs of control and treatment individuals (F1,14 0.72, P 0.411). Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite excretion in AVED-collared deer was indistinguishable from uncollared animals and within the normal, baseline range for this species. Absence of an adrenal response to collaring suggested that AVED collaring does not induce physiological stress in deer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	609-614
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Wildlife Management
Volume	73
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2193/2008-266
State	Published - May 2009

Keywords

Adrenocortical response
Animal-borne video and environmental data collection systems
Odocoileus virginianus
Stress hormones
Temperature
Video collar
White-tailed deer

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