Influence of vitamin E and carcass feeding supplementation on fecal glucocorticoid and androgen metabolites in male black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes)

• Rachel M. Santymire ,

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

  * E-mail: rsantymire@lpzoo.org

  Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4102-9144

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• Shana R. Lavin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Animals, Science, and Environment, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Orlando, Florida, United States of America.

  Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9557-0393

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• Heather Branvold-Faber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Southside Animal Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America.

  Affiliation United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America

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• Julie Kreeger,

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

  Current address: Bovey, Minnesota, United States of America.

  Affiliation United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America

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• Judy Che-Castaldo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Michelle Rafacz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

  Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Paul Marinari

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, United States of America

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