The purpose of this study was to provide information about the relative effectiveness of enrichment stimuli, for use by animal care staff in fine-tuning procedures in the ongoing program of carnivore behavioral enrichment. Behavioral assays (diversity of actions, duration of activity) were measured before, during and after treatments (presentation of enrichment stimuli). Non-invasive focal grou...

ABSTRACT: Hypoparathyroidism refers to a group of disorders in which extracellular calcium levels cannot be maintained within the normal range due to relative or absolute deficiency of parathyroid hormone. Clinically, hypoparathyroidism manifests predominantly as neuromuscular dysfunction caused by hypocalcemia. Basal ganglia calcification in particular is associated with hypoparathyroidism. Tw...