New animal-based measures to assess welfare in dromedary camels

Menchetti, Laura; Faye, Bernard; Padalino, Barbara

doi:10.1007/s11250-021-02978-8

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“…Behaviour, health, pathology, productivity, and animal welfare are intricately interconnected. Therefore, behavioural problems serve as vital indicators of compromised welfare in these animals (14). Until recently, the welfare of camels has not been prioritised (11).…”

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“…However, the principles of Welfare Quality ® can be used to identify animal welfare issues and risks in all systems (55). A recently published protocol for the assessment of Dromedary camel in intensive and semi-intensive systems (14,15) adapted Welfare Quality and AWIN protocols to this species. However, the latter protocol is not useful in extensive, pasture-based systems and small, traditional farms in developing countries because of the different characteristics of the production units (19), and needs, therefore, future adaptation and validations.…”

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“…Due to their adaptability and sustainability in extremely arid environments, Dromedary camels are therefore viewed with increasing interest even by countries where this livestock species was not traditionally bred (9). As interest in this animal species grew, so did the number of scientific works aimed at investigating its physiology (12), genetics (13), and welfare (14)(15)(16).…”

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Dromedary camel’s welfare: literature from 1980 to 2023 with a text mining and topic analysis approach

Masebo,

Zappaterra,

Felici

et al. 2023

Front. Vet. Sci.

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Dromedary camels are the preferable livestock species in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Most of the world’s camel populations are managed under a subsistence/extensive system maintained by migratory pastoralists but intensification is getting more frequent. Even though recently the welfare of camels has been receiving more attention, in many countries there are no regulations to protect their health and welfare. The objectives of this article were to explore the main research topics related to camel welfare, their distribution over time and to highlight research gaps. A literature search was performed to identify records published in English from January 1980 to March 2023 on Dromedary camel welfare via Scopus®, using “Camel welfare,” “Camel behaviour,” “She-camel” and “Camel management” as search words. A total of 234 records were retained for analysis after automatic and manual screening procedures. Descriptive statistics, text mining (TM) and topic analysis (TA) were performed. The result shows that even though there were fluctuations between years, records on camel welfare have increased exponentially over time. Asia was the region where most of the corresponding authors were located. The first five most frequent words were, “milk,” “calv,” “behaviour,” “femal,” and “breed,” the least frequent word was “stabl.” TA resulted in the five most relevant topics dealing with “Calf management and milk production,” “Camel health and management system,” “Female and male reproduction,” “Camel behaviour and feeding,” and “Camel welfare.” The topics that contained the oldest records were “female and male reproduction” and “camel health and management system” (in 1980 and 1983, respectively), while the topic named “camel behaviour and feeding” had the first article published in 2000. Overall, even though topics related to camel behaviour and welfare are receiving more attention from academia, research is still needed to fully understand how to safeguard welfare in Dromedary camels.

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Dromedary camel’s welfare: literature from 1980 to 2023 with a text mining and topic analysis approach

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Felici

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“…Although the management and handling of dromedaries in pastoral communities has been described previously ( Dioli et al, 1992 ), studies that systematically assess welfare in this species were only published last year. However, this data was not collected from intensive farms, but rather from a traditional camel market ( Menchetti et al, 2021a , 2021b ).…”

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