About the Authors

Blandine Houdellier

Contributed equally to this work with: Blandine Houdellier, Véronique Liekens

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

blandine.houdellier@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging and Small Animal Orthopaedic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Véronique Liekens

Contributed equally to this work with: Blandine Houdellier, Véronique Liekens

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Small Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Pascale Smets

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Small Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Tim Bouts

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zoo of Pairi Daiza, Brugelette, Belgium

Jimmy H. Saunders

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging and Small Animal Orthopaedic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Competing Interests

The examinations were done in the zoo of Pairi Daiza as part of the annual health examination. The zoo of Pairi Daiza paid for the blood sample analysis and provided the radiography machine (present on site). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.