Many researchers and educators need to provide Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to their Animal Ethics Committee (AEC) for the purpose of trapping, handling, and temporarily housing small mammals. We devised general SOPs that are compatible with most existing ones for Australia and had these SOPs reviewed by a panel of Australian experts. The SOPs may be used as guidelines by researchers who need to provide such protocols to their organisation or AEC, or in teaching.
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16 May 2013
Standard Operating Procedures for aluminium box, wire cage, and pitfall trapping, handling, and temporary housing of small wild rodents and marsupials
Sophie Petit,
Helen P. Waudby
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Australian Journal of Zoology
Vol. 60 • No. 6
May 2013
Vol. 60 • No. 6
May 2013
animal ethics
guidelines
protocols
small mammals
trapping wildlife