Method development: Assigning sex to African clawless otter spraints and assessing stability of faecal androgen and progestagen metabolites post-defaecation.

Marli Burger, Andrea B Webster, Tshepiso L Majelantle, Juan Scheun, Andre Ganswindt

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Article in MethodsX, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Diet and traffic: anthropogenic factors that influence stress-related hormone levels in African clawless otters.Conservation physiology · 2025
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Marli BurgerMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Andrea B WebsterMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Tshepiso L MajelantleMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Juan ScheunDepartment Nature Conservation, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.

Andre GanswindtMammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

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Abstract

Monitoring reproductive physiology in wildlife can be a useful tool for assessing population dynamics for conservation and management purposes. Utilizing non-invasive approaches for this, such as quantifying reproductive hormone metabolites from faeces, can be challenging when defaecation events are not observed, or when cryptic species like African clawless otters (

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African clawless ottersAndrogensfAM:fPM ratioHormone monitoringNon-invasiveProgestagensStability post-defaecationUsing African clawless otter spraints to quantify reproductive hormones

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PMID39206057

DOI10.1016/j.mex.2024.102883

PMCPMC11350257

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