ffb07055adca64da6ab012f7c20f30c1 pmc_34359202.pdf 85e37629b48f663a8be8926c67873118e8e6a382 pmc_34359202.pdf 126bb43b63a369ac4620bdd63c93a463bbdb8e898b1b1b876b7eeed561d3820b pmc_34359202.pdf Title: Caretaker Score Reliability for Personality Assessment of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Subject: The evaluation of zoo animals’ personalities can likely lead to a range of benefits, including improving breeding success, creating stable social groups, and designing and developing environmental enrichment programmes. The goal of this study was to use caretakers scores to evaluate personality in bottlenose dolphins and to assess the reliability of scores within each rater and among raters from each centre. To this end, 24 caretakers from 3 countries (Spain, France, and Argentina), including a total of 5 dolphinariums and 6 groups of dolphins, used a questionnaire based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality to score bottlenose dolphins on a number of personality traits in three different contexts. Each caretaker evaluated the animals under their care twice, ensuring that raters did not share thoughts nor impressions with other raters. Our findings showed a good degree of agreement between each rater’s scores and a fair degree of agreement among scores of raters from the same centre. We also identified which raters and centres had significant mean score differences and detected that 4 out of 24 raters from two different centres showed such differences systematically. The evaluation of raters’ reliability and the identification of particular inconsistent raters and centres is critical to make more appropriate and realistic management decisions that, in turn, directly impact animals’ welfare. Keywords: animal keeper; animal personality; behaviour; captivity; dolphinarium; intra-rater dependence; temperament; welfare; zoo Author: Marina Salas, Amanda Fernández-Fontelo, Eva Martínez-Nevado, Jesús Fernández-Morán, Agustín López-Goya and Xavier Manteca Creator: LaTeX with hyperref Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.21 CreationDate: Mon Jul 12 13:05:00 2021 CEST ModDate: Mon Jul 12 14:45:47 2021 CEST Custom Metadata: no Metadata Stream: no Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 14 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 284654 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.7 name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- FJMGBM+VnURWPalladioL Type 1 Custom yes yes no 10 0 CRXPRI+URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 Custom yes yes no 15 0 PRWQYT+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes no 20 0 UMJKLZ+URWPalladioL-BoldItal Type 1 Custom yes yes no 24 0 ISSTNU+URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 Custom yes yes no 28 0 JCYIDT+VnURWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes no 32 0 SZMRXJ+TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes no 40 0 MCBCCI+SourceSansRoman-Regular Type 1C Custom yes yes no 62 0 MCBCCM+SourceSansRoman.613wght Type 1C Custom yes yes no 66 0 MCBCCO+SourceSansRoman-Bold Type 1C Custom yes yes no 70 0 FXXUVH+CMSY10 Type 1 Builtin yes yes no 100 0 Jhove (Rel. 1.28.0, 2023-05-18) Date: 2024-10-02 03:08:18 CEST RepresentationInformation: pmc_34359202.pdf ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.12.4 (2023-03-16) LastModified: 2023-03-31 12:14:45 CEST Size: 284654 Format: PDF Version: 1.7 Status: Well-Formed and valid SignatureMatches: PDF-hul MIMEtype: application/pdf PDFMetadata: Objects: 253 FreeObjects: 1 IncrementalUpdates: 0 DocumentCatalog: PageLayout: SinglePage PageMode: UseNone Outlines: Item: Title: Introduction Destination: section.1 Item: Title: Materials and Methods Destination: section.2 Children: Item: Title: Personality Questionnaire Destination: subsection.2.1 Item: Title: Participants Destination: subsection.2.2 Item: Title: Statistical Analysis Destination: subsection.2.3 Item: Title: Ethical Approval Destination: subsection.2.4 Item: Title: Results Destination: section.3 Item: Title: Discussion Destination: section.4 Item: Title: Conclusions Destination: section.5 Item: Title: References Destination: section.5 Info: Title: Caretaker Score Reliability for Personality Assessment of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Author: Marina Salas, Amanda Fernández-Fontelo, Eva Martínez-Nevado, Jesús Fernández-Morán, Agustín López-Goya and Xavier Manteca Subject: The evaluation of zoo animals’ personalities can likely lead to a range of benefits, including improving breeding success, creating stable social groups, and designing and developing environmental enrichment programmes. The goal of this study was to use caretakers scores to evaluate personality in bottlenose dolphins and to assess the reliability of scores within each rater and among raters from each centre. To this end, 24 caretakers from 3 countries (Spain, France, and Argentina), including a total of 5 dolphinariums and 6 groups of dolphins, used a questionnaire based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality to score bottlenose dolphins on a number of personality traits in three different contexts. Each caretaker evaluated the animals under their care twice, ensuring that raters did not share thoughts nor impressions with other raters. Our findings showed a good degree of agreement between each rater’s scores and a fair degree of agreement among scores of raters from the same centre. We also identified which raters and centres had significant mean score differences and detected that 4 out of 24 raters from two different centres showed such differences systematically. The evaluation of raters’ reliability and the identification of particular inconsistent raters and centres is critical to make more appropriate and realistic management decisions that, in turn, directly impact animals’ welfare. 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