Rashid, Mohammed H.
Vaughan, Jane L.
Stevenson, Mark A.
Campbell, Angus J.D.
Saeed, Muhammad A.
Indjein, Léa
Beveridge, Ian
Jabbar, Abdul http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-0046
Article History
Received: 3 August 2018
Accepted: 24 January 2019
First Online: 4 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The questionnaire was approved by the Human Ethics Committee (Ethics ID 1443529) of the University of Melbourne. The participants of the survey were registered members of the Australian Alpaca Association (AAA), and their participation in the study was entirely voluntary. All active members of the AAA received an invitation through email from the head office of the AAA to participate in the survey. The use of alpacas in this study was approved by the Animal Ethics Committee (AEC no. 1413412.1) of the University of Melbourne. A plain language statement about the project was provided to participating alpaca farmers before obtaining their written consent.