Field anesthesia of American Mink, Mustela vison, using halothane
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Incidental to Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) capture-recapture operations in southcentral Saskatchewan, Canada, American Mink (Mustela vison) were captured and immobilized using halothane.Thirteen trials were performed on nine mink (7 M, 2 F).An initial dose of 4 mL provided complete anesthesia after 105 s (SD = 37 s, n= 7).Once anesthetized, stand-up posture and complete recovery occurred after a mean (SD) of 123 s (56 s) and 175 s (69 s), respectively.Multiple applications yielded longer and more variable induction times (311 + 109 s), but similar stand-up (136 + 80 s) and recovery times (182 + 83 s).Halothane provided rapid (< 2 min) induction on calm mink, but all animals experienced traumatic anesthesia and recovery.One case involving multiple applications resulted in the death of one animal.We conclude that single applications of halothane may be used for anesthesia of American Mink for short (< 2 min) periods, but that the difficult recovery of immobilized Mink precludes the overall acceptability of this agent.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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