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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.
  5. Recognize advances in improving captive exotic animal welfare and ethics through awards.
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Foraging enrichment affects behaviour and enclosure utilisation in captive male gelada Theropithecus gelada

Authors: Alice Hurley, Alison Cotton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: enclosure use, enrichment, foraging, primate

2022

Investigating the Behavior and Personality Structure of the Aldabra Tortoise during Human Interactions and Training Events

Authors: Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino, Vanessa Smith, Massimo Faustini, Eleonora Bonacina, Davide Guadagnini, Roberto Robbiati, Alice Cavalleri, James Edward Brereton, Richard Preziosi

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: Aldabrachelys giganea, animal personality, chelonia mydas, geochelone gigantea, human-animal interaction

2022

Glucocorticoid Production, Activity Levels, And Personality Traits Of Fennec Foxes (Vulpes zerda) Managed For Different Roles In Zoos

Authors: Corinne P Kozlowski, Karen L Bauman, Ashley D Franklin, John M Sahrmann, Marieke Gartner, Eli Baskir, Sheri Hanna, Kathleen LaMattina, Alice Seyfried, David M Powell

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: ambassador animals, circadian rhythm, cortisol metabolites, fennec foxes, pedometer, temperament

2021

Assessing the Preference of Rabbit Does to Social Contact or Seclusion: Results of Different Investigations

Authors: Alessandro Dal Bosco, Alice Cartoni Mancinelli, Steffen Hoy, Melania Martino, Simona Mattioli, Elisa Cotozzolo, Cesare Castellini

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: group housing, motivational cage, preference test, rabbit does, social contact

2020

Physical and Physiological Indicators of Welfare in Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus) Serving as Ambassador Animals

Authors: David M Powell, Corinne P Kozlowski, John Clark, Alice Seyfried, Eli Baskir, Ashley D Franklin

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: ambassador animal, domestication, glucocorticoids, welfare, zoo

2020

Friend or foe: reconciliation between males and females in wild chacma baboons

Authors: Christine E. Webb, Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, Elise Huchard

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, chacma baboon, male–female association, postconflict affiliation, reconciliation

2019

Visitor effects on zoo-housed Sulawesi crested macaque (Macaca nigra) behaviour: Can signs with ‘watching eyes’ requesting quietness help?

Authors: Alice M. M. Dancer, Charlotte C. Burn

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, noise effects, primates, visitor effects, zoo animals

2019

Contact with cows during the young age increases social competence and lowers the cardiac stress reaction in dairy calves

Authors: Cornelia Buchli, Alice Raselli, Rupert Bruckmaier, Edna Hillmann

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: alternative calf rearing, confrontation, dairy calves, dam rearing, isolation, stress reactivity

2017

Vocal activities reflect the temporal distribution of bottlenose dolphin social and non-social activity in a zoological park

Authors: Alice Lima, Alban Lemasson, Martin Boye, Martine Hausberger

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavior, dolphin, meal times, social activities, time-budget, vocal activity

2017

Unrewarded Object Combinations in Captive Parrots

Authors: A. M. I Auersperg, N. Oswald, M. Domanegg, G. K. Gajdon, T. Bugnyar

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: avian cognition, exploration, object combinations, object play, parrot

2014

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