Rehabilitation outcomes following tail-fluke amputation in an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin: A welfare-centered approach

• Suguru Higa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Sayaka Takahashi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Eri Nakashima,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Yui Kurosu,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Haruka Ikeshima,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Ryota Yagi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Nihiro Adachi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Keiichi Ueda,

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

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

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• Hirobumi Umeyama,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bridgestone Corporation, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5050-5028

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• Hitoshi Yamamoto,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bridgestone Corporation, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yukinori Nakakita,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bridgestone Corporation, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazuma Tochigi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bridgestone Corporation, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Taihei Kagawa,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bridgestone Corporation, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shin-ichiro Oka

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sh-oka@okichura.jp

  Affiliation Aquarium Management Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-6342

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