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ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2025

Alpaca (

Renata Pilarczyk, Małgorzata Bąkowska, Bogumiła Pilarczyk, Agnieszka Tomza-Marciniak, Beata Seremak, Jan Udała, Paulius Matusevičius, Ramutė Mišeikienė

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Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Alpaca Keeping in Hungary: The First Nationwide Survey.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Renata PilarczykLaboratory of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Animal Research, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Klemensa Janickiego 29, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4644-1392
Małgorzata BąkowskaDepartment of Animal Reproduction Biotechnology and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Klemensa Janickiego 29, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-0588-4023
Bogumiła PilarczykDepartment of Animal Reproduction Biotechnology and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Klemensa Janickiego 29, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1073-3518
Agnieszka Tomza-MarciniakDepartment of Animal Reproduction Biotechnology and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Klemensa Janickiego 29, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3803-7058
Beata SeremakDepartment of Animal Reproduction Biotechnology and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Klemensa Janickiego 29, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-0917-0607
Jan UdałaDepartment of Animal Reproduction Biotechnology and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Husbandry, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Klemensa Janickiego 29, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1396-0321
Paulius MatusevičiusDepartment of Animal Nutrition, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžes 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0002-6612-2479
Ramutė MišeikienėInstitute of Animal Rearing Technologies, Veterinary Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžes 18, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0002-9149-8929

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A key diagnostic tool in breeding practice is systematic observation: by identifying abnormalities in natural behaviour, it can highlight early signs of reduced welfare or physical and mental health issues in livestock and other animals. The aim of this paper is to review current literature to provide a detailed analysis of the factors affecting the physical and mental health of alpacas (

Indexed as

alpacabehavioural assessmentenvironmental enrichmenthusbandry environmentstress responseswelfare

Identifiers

PMID41227423
PMCPMC12607684

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Registered trials

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