title: The effects of long-term captivity on the metabolic parameters of a small Afrotropical bird.
abstract: The few within-species studies on the effects of long-term captivity on avian physiological variables have small samples sizes and contradictory results. Nevertheless, many physiological studies make use of long-term captive birds, assuming the results will be applicable to wild populations. Here we investigated the effects of long-term captivity on a variety of physiological measurements in a relatively small (~12 g) southern African endemic bird, the Cape white-eye (Zosterops virens). Whole animal basal metabolic rate (BMR) and body mass (Mb) were influenced more by long-term captivity than by season, while mass-specific BMR, standard and basal whole animal and mass-specific evaporative water loss (EWL), and respiratory quotient (RQ), were all affected primarily by season, with long-term captivity having less of an effect. We therefore caution that whole animal BMR and Mb of long-term captive birds should not be used as representative of wild populations, and that the origin of study birds should be considered when comparing EWL and RQ of wild and long-term captive birds.
authors: School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Pietermaritzburg, 3209, South Africa, lindojano@yahoo.com.
authors: Lindy J
authors: LJ
authors: Thompson
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Brown
authors: Colleen T
authors: CT
authors: Downs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D001481:Basal Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D046109:Passeriformes / Q000502:physiology*; D056152:Respiratory Rate; D012621:Seasons; D013019:South Africa; D014870:Water Loss, Insensible / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide
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