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  1. Acquire and make easily accessible to zoo and aquarium professionals the current body of knowledge on animal welfare and ethics.
  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
  3. Convene important discussions and presentations on captive exotic animal welfare and ethics.
  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
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A comparison of personality in the common and Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus and Saimiri boliviensis)

Authors: Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Miho Inoue-Murayama, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: agreeableness, animal ethology, animal personality, assertiveness, likert scales, monkeys, neuroticism, openness to experience, phylogenesis, primates (nonhuman)

2018

How long does it take? Reliable personality assessment based on common behaviour in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

Authors: Michaela Masilkova, Alexander Weiss, Martina Konečná

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: animal personality, Behavioural observation, callitrichidae, consistency, Continuous focal recording

2018

Chimpanzees with positive welfare are happier, extraverted, and emotionally stable

Authors: Lauren M. Robinson, Drew M. Altschul, Emma K. Wallace, Yulán Úbeda, Miquel Llorente, Zarin Machanda, Katie E. Slocombe, Matthew C. Leach, Natalie K. Waran, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, chimpanzee, happiness, pan troglodytes, personality, welfare

2017

Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) personality

Authors: Sonja E. Koski, Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith, Hayley Ash, Judith M. Burkart, Thomas Bugnyar, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal breeding, animal personality, interspecies interaction, primates (nonhuman)

2017

Face-based perception of emotions in dairy goats

Authors: Lucille G. A. Bellegarde, Marie J. Haskell, Christine Duvaux-Ponter, Alexander Weiss, Alain Boissy, Hans W. Erhard

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: *cognitive bias, ear postures, emotions, face, goats

2017

Welfare Impacts of Spay/Neuter-Focused Outreach on Companion Animals in New York City Public Housing

Authors: Emily D. Dolan, Emily Weiss, Margaret R. Slater

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal shelter, cats, dogs, outreach, spay/neuter

2017

Comparison of Subjective Well-Being and Personality Assessments in the Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia), and African Lion (Panthera leo)

Authors: Marieke Cassia Gartner, David M. Powell, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal well-being, big cats, personality

2016

Happiness is positive welfare in brown capuchins (Sapajus apella)

Authors: Lauren M. Robinson, Natalie K. Waran, Matthew C. Leach, F. Blake Morton, Annika Paukner, Elizabeth Lonsdorf, Ian Handel, Vanessa A. D. Wilson, Sarah F. Brosnan, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: capuchin, personality, primate, stereotypy, subjective well-being, welfare

2016

Serial Cognition and Personality in Macaques

Authors: D. M. Altschul, H. S. Terrace, A Weiss

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: comparative cognition, individual differences, personality, primates, rhesus macaques, serial cognition

2016

Capuchin monkeys with similar personalities have higher-quality relationships independent of age, sex, kinship and rank

Authors: F. Blake Morton, Alexander Weiss, Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith, Phyllis C. Lee

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cebus apella, homophily, partner compatibility, sociability, social rank, temperament

2015

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