An E-Delphi study to facilitate animal welfare assessment in Italian zoos and aquaria

• Barbara de Mori ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara de Mori, Elena Mercugliano

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

  * E-mail: barbara.demori@unipd.it (BM); elena.mercugliano@studenti.unipd.it (EM)

  Affiliations Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Ethics Laboratory for Veterinary Medicine, Conservation and Animal Welfare, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7397-1797

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• Elena Mercugliano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara de Mori, Elena Mercugliano

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

  * E-mail: barbara.demori@unipd.it (BM); elena.mercugliano@studenti.unipd.it (EM)

  Affiliations Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Ethics Laboratory for Veterinary Medicine, Conservation and Animal Welfare, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5462-0991

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• Adriana F. Cerizza,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Ethics Laboratory for Veterinary Medicine, Conservation and Animal Welfare, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Pierfrancesco Biasetti,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ethics Laboratory for Veterinary Medicine, Conservation and Animal Welfare, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Department of Reproduction Management, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4309-4655

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• Daniela Florio,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ethics Laboratory for Veterinary Medicine, Conservation and Animal Welfare, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Riccardo Da Re,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ETIFOR, Padua, Italy

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• Sandro Mazzariol,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Olga Usachova,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Simone Basile,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Ethics Laboratory for Veterinary Medicine, Conservation and Animal Welfare, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Claudia Gili ,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CG and SRN authors also contributed equally to this work, and have to be equally recognized as last authors.

  Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

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• Sara Rota Nodari

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CG and SRN authors also contributed equally to this work, and have to be equally recognized as last authors.

  Affiliation Italian National Reference Center for Animal Welfare, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna ‘Bruno Ubertini’, Brescia, Italy

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