Management factors affecting adrenal glucocorticoid activity of tourist camp elephants in Thailand and implications for elephant welfare

• Pakkanut Bansiddhi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pakkanut Bansiddhi, Janine L. Brown

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

  Affiliations Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Companion Animals and Wildlife Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Janine L. Brown ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pakkanut Bansiddhi, Janine L. Brown

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3898-7755

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• Jaruwan Khonmee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliations Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Veterinary Bioscience and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3806-9746

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• Treepradab Norkaew,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Korakot Nganvongpanit,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Veterinary Bioscience and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Veerasak Punyapornwithaya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Food Animal Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Excellent Center of Veterinary Public Health, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Taweepoke Angkawanish,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation National Elephant Institute, Lampang, Thailand

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• Chaleamchat Somgird,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Companion Animals and Wildlife Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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• Chatchote Thitaram

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

  * E-mail: chatchote.thitaram@cmu.ac.th

  Affiliations Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Companion Animals and Wildlife Clinics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9319-5596

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