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Giraffe evidence area

Digestive & metabolic disorders

GI and metabolic disease: bloat, acidosis, volvulus, pancreatic disease, serous fat atrophy, peracute mortality syndrome.

Emerging corpus coverage
31mapped records
20open-access records
0human-checked notes

Working conservation implication

What this evidence could inform

No intervention hypothesis has been editorially approved for this evidence area.

This is a research and product hypothesis derived from the developing map. It is not a clinical protocol, a field-program claim, or proof that a proposed intervention works.

Corpus coverage

19732026

65% of mapped records are marked open access. Classification can be imperfect; use the paper-level sources for substantive conclusions.

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Key papers in the map

202143 citations in source index

Integrated Bacterial and Fungal Diversity Analysis Reveals the Gut Microbial Alterations in Diarrheic Giraffes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Open DOI
200539 citations in source index

MORTALITY OF CAPTIVE GIRAFFE (GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS) ASSOCIATED WITH SEROUS FAT ATROPHY: A REVIEW OF FIVE CASES AT AUCKLAND ZOO

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Open DOI
200020 citations in source index

Obstructive urolithiasis in a reticulated giraffe ( Gfraff camelopardalis reticulata )

Veterinary Record

Open DOI
201719 citations in source index

DETOMIDINE AND BUTORPHANOL FOR STANDING SEDATION IN A RANGE OF ZOO-KEPT UNGULATE SPECIES

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Open DOI
200915 citations in source index

Analysis of nutrient concentrations in the diet, serum, and urine of giraffe from surveyed North American zoological institutions

Zoo Biology

Open DOI
201112 citations in source index

Serum Chemistry Comparisons Between Captive and Free-ranging Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Open DOI

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