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Poster 9
Beatriz Zapata presents Poster 9 during the poster sessions in the Aula.
Session theme 1: Development, validation and automated measurements of indicators of animal welfare
IDENTIFICATION OF RELIABLE BEHAVIORAL PARAMETERS TO
ASSESS WELFARE IN FARMED GUANACOS IN CHILE
I. De Freslon 1 , C. Bustos 2 , G. Cubillos 3 , B. Zapata 4
1 Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile
2 Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Santo Tomás, Santiago, Chile.
3 Unidad de Bienestar Animal, Zoológico Nacional, Santiago, Chile.
4 Departamento de Fomento de la Producción, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, Universidad
de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Guanacos are wild South American camelids which are being raised in farms in Chile and
Argentina. Stress measurements have been conducted in this species to identify the impact of
routine procedures; nevertheless a system to assess their welfare had not been developed so far. The
aim of this study is to identify reliable parameters to measure the welfare of farmed guanacos.
We studied a group of 132 guanacos in a commercial farm (140 ha) and 9 guanacos in the National
Zoo (0.2 ha). Percentages of the more relevant activity budget (AB: ruminating, standing, resting
and foraging) and agonistic behaviors (AGB: threat, attacks and fights) were recorded in two
occasions with 3 weeks interval. Flight distance (FD) to human also was measured in the Zoo in
three occasions. T-paired test was applied between consecutive sampling times and Kendall’s
coefficient of concordance test (W) was used to analyze the repeatability among sampling points
(four paddocks and Zoo enclosure) and three consecutive sampling times.
The percentage of AB were statistically similar between sampling times (p>0.05) and the
repeatability among paddocks was significantly high (W=0.66, p0.05), however FD Kendall’s coefficient was low
and not significant (W=0.4, p