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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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Effects of time of day, visitor pressure and weather on the behaviour of captive American bison Bison bison

Authors: Rogerio Vicentini, Aline Cristina Sant’Anna, Wendy Mercedes Rauw, Diego Moya, Maria Delclaux Real de Asua, John Scott Church, Yuri Regis Montanholi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: American buffalo, bovid, captive environment, meteorological parameters, remote monitoring, wild cattle

2024

Is individual temperament related to behaviors in a social context for a Neotropical parakeet species?

Authors: Gabriela de Araújo Porto Ramos, Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, Dhiordan Deon Costa Lovestain, Talys Henrique Assumpção Jardim, Aline Cristina Sant’Anna

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: boldness, dominance, personality, Psittacara leucophthalmus, social behavior, social rank

2021

Sex segregation affects exploratory and social behaviors of zebrafish according to controlled housing conditions

Authors: Suelen Mendonça Soares, Karina Kirsten, Aline Pompermaier, Victoria Costa Maffi, Gessi Koakoski, Maurício Woloszyn, Leonardo José Gil Barcellos

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: chemical cue, gender, novel tank test, structural environmental enrichment, visual cue

2020

Temperament in Captivity, Environmental Enrichment, Flight Ability, and Response to Humans in an Endangered Parrot Species

Authors: Gabriela de AP Ramos, Cristiano S de Azevedo, Talys HA Jardim, Aline C Sant’Anna

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: Amazona vinacea, flight skill, human-animal interaction, personality, reintroduction in wild

2020

Assessment of the differences in masticatory behavior between male and female adolescents

Authors: Kelly Guedes de Oliveira Scudine, Aline Pedroni-Pereira, Darlle Santos Araujo, Daniela Galvão de Almeida Prado, Ana Claudia Rossi, Paula Midori Castelo

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: adolescent, mastication, sex differences

2016

Unpredictable and repeated negative stimuli increased emotional reactivity in male quail

Authors: Angélique Favreau-Peigné, Ludovic Calandreau, Paul Constantin, Aline Bertin, Cécile Arnould, Agathe Laurence, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Cécilia Houdelier, Sophie Lumineau, Alain Boissy, Christine Leterrier

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bird, chronic stress, emotional reactivity, neophobia, tonic immobility

2016

Flight distance and reaction to fawn handling are greater in high- than in low-ranked pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) females

Authors: R. Ungerfeld, J. T. Morales-Piñeyrúa, A. Freitas-de-Melo

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, animal-human relationship, cervid, dominance, hierarchy, maternal behaviour

2015

Mother–young behaviours at lambing in grazing ewes: Effects of lamb sex and food restriction in pregnancy

Authors: Aline Freitas-de-Melo, Rodolfo Ungerfeld, Maria José Hötzel, Maria José Abud, Andrea Alvarez-Oxiley, Agustín Orihuela, Juan Pablo Damián, Raquel Pérez-Clariget

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: attachment, lamb behaviour, maternal behaviour, pasture allowance, sheep, undernutrition

2015

Unpredictable mild stressors on laying females influence the composition of Japanese quail eggs and offspring’s phenotype

Authors: Floriane Guibert, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Sophie Lumineau, Kurt Kotrschal, Aline Bertin, Christophe Petton, Erich Möstl, Cécilia Houdelier

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral development, behavioural development, coturnix c. japonica, maternal effects, prenatal stress, yolk steroids

2011

Social influences on circadian behavioural rhythms in vertebrates

Authors: Angélique Favreau, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Aline Bertin, Cécilia Houdelier, Sophie Lumineau

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: circadian rhythm, entrainment, mutual synchronization, relative coordination, social cue, vertebrates

2009

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