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ArticleAnimal welfare (South Mimms, England)2025

Rifles and shotguns have similar animal welfare outcomes during aerial culling of non-native fallow deer (

David M Forsyth, Andrew J Bengsen, Andrew L Perry, Lee Parker, Mal Leeson, Jordan O Hampton

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Article in Animal welfare (South Mimms, England), 2025. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

David M ForsythVertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Orange, NSW, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-9573
Andrew J BengsenVertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Calala, NSW, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2205-4416
Andrew L PerryEcotone Wildlife Veterinary Services, Inverloch, VIC, Australia.
Lee ParkerVertebrate Pest Research Unit, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Calala, NSW, Australia.
Mal LeesonCentral Tablelands Local Land Services, Mudgee, NSW, Australia.
Jordan O HamptonSchool of Veterinary Medicine, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0472-3241

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Helicopter-based shooting using either a .308 semi-automatic rifle or a semi-automatic 12-gauge shotgun is widely used to manage non-native ungulate populations in Australasia, but the animal welfare outcomes of these two firearms have not been robustly compared. We conducted a randomised field study to compare the animal welfare outcomes of helicopter-based shooting of fallow deer (

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Animal welfarechase timehelicopter-based shootingshootingwildlife cullingwounding

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PMID40988867
PMCPMC12451392

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