Metabolic health assessment of zoo elephants: Management factors predicting leptin levels and the glucose-to-insulin ratio and their associations with health parameters

• Kari A. Morfeld ,

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

  * E-mail: karimorfeld@yahoo.com

  Current address: Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  Affiliations Lincoln Children’s Zoo, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Front Royal, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-5719

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• Janine L. Brown

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Front Royal, Virginia, United States of America

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