Análise comportamental de papagaios-verdadeiros(Amazona aestiva) submetidos a diferentes alojamentos e condições sociais em cativeiro

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Queiroz, Carla Martins de [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Papagaio (Ave); Avaliação de comportamento; Stress (Fisiologia); Animais - Aspectos sociais; Animais - Proteção; Animal welfare
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/113918

Parrots are widely present in captivity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the withdrawal of captive blue-fronted Amazon parrots (Amazona aestiva) of their original group with or without its social partners through the analysis of behavior. 19 blue-fronted Amazon parrots were used, separated by sex into two groups of 11 males and 8 females. Prior observation of the animals was held to making a behavioral inventory and description of stress-related behaviors. In this period it was found that there were 6 isossexual pairs in the collective context and, therefore, only these 12 parrots were used in the experiment. After 11 days of filming behavior, behavioral baseline was obtained. Then all the animals were housed in cages, in Paired and Isolated tratments, remaining seven days in each situation. On the first day of each treatment, the behavioral recording was performed for 40 minutes between 10 and 11 hours and, on the following days, 10-minutes sessions of filming were obtained in the same range. For statistical analysis, the Friedman test was used to compare the percentage of time spent in each behavior among treatments, with significance value of P <0.05. After removal of the animals from the aviary to the cages for both treatment alone and in pairs, there was a significant increase in locomotor activity of animals, decreased sleep and yawn, decreased grooming and physical proximity, as well as weight loss and positive parasitological examination for coccidiosis in two animals. Thus, we conclude that the removal of animals from their original group increased behavioral indicators of stress and the presence of isossexual pair did not protect the animal of this effect