About the Authors
- Joseph Saragusty
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* E-mail: saragusty@izw-berlin.de
Affiliation Department of Reproduction Management, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
- Anat Shavit-Meyrav
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Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Nobuyuki Yamaguchi
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Current address: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, Abingdon, United Kingdom
- Rona Nadler
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Affiliation Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Tali Bdolah-Abram
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Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Laura Gibeon
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Affiliation NYC Veterinary Specialists, New York, New York, United States of America
- Thomas B. Hildebrandt
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Affiliation Department of Reproduction Management, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
- Merav H. Shamir
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Affiliation Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Competing Interests
None of the authors of this paper has a financial or personal relationship with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias the content of this paper. Although two of the authors (RN and LG) are employed by commercial entities (Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan, Israel and NYC Veterinary Specialists, New York, NY, USA, respectively), this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JS MHS. Performed the experiments: AS NY RN LG MHS. Analyzed the data: JS AS TB MHS. Wrote the paper: JS AS NY MHS. Critically reviewed and revised the paper: NY RN LG TBH. Approved submission: JS AS NY RN TB LG TBH MHS.