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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.
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Evaluation of the time-activity budgets of captive ducks (Anatidae) compared to wild counterparts

Authors: Paul Rose, Amelia Roper, Sophie Banks, Chris Giorgio, Milla Timms, Phoebe Vaughan, Steven Hatch, Samantha Halpin, Joe Thomas, Michelle O’Brien

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, behaviour, evidence-based husbandry, pinioning, waterfowl, welfare, wildfowl

2022

Evaluation of the time-activity budgets of captive ducks (Anatidae) compared to wild counterparts

Authors: Paul Rose, Amelia Roper, Sophie Banks, Chris Giorgio, Milla Timms, Phoebe Vaughan, Steven Hatch, Samantha Halpin, Joe Thomas, Michelle O’Brien

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, behaviour, evidence-based husbandry, pinioning, waterfowl, welfare, wildfowl

2022

A Review of Welfare Assessment Methods in Reptiles, and Preliminary Application of the Welfare Quality registered trademark Protocol to the Pygmy Blue-Tongue Skink, Tiliqua adelaidensis, Using Animal-Based Measures

Authors: Amelia L. Benn, David J. McLelland, Alexandra L. Whittaker

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: assessment tool, play, pygmy skink, reptiles, welfare

2019

Survey of feeding practices, body condition and faeces consistency in captive ant-eating mammals in the UK

Authors: Amelia Clark, Ayona Silva-Fletcher, Mark Fox, Michael Kreuzer, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: aardvark, anteaters, armadillo, feeding practices, survey, zoos

2016

Quantifying the Shelter Rabbit Population: An Analysis of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Animal Shelters

Authors: Amelia J. Cook, Emily McCobb

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal shelter, population, rabbit

2012

The effect of group size on the behaviour and welfare of four fish species commonly kept in home aquaria

Authors: Amelia Saxby, Leoni Adams, Donna Snellgrove, Rod W. Wilson, Katherine A. Sloman

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: barbus tetrazona, environmental enrichment, novel object, paracheirodon innesi, pterophyllum scalare, stocking density, tanichthys albonubes

2010

The application of social network theory to animal behaviour

Authors: Amelia Coleing

Publication/Journal: Bioscience Horizons

Keywords: animal social behaviour, social behavior, social behaviour, social networks

2009

Genetic kinship and social structure in a herd of square-lipped rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum simum) at the zoological center, Tel Aviv/Ramat-Gan, Israel

Authors: Benjamin Seror, Yehuda Zorovsky, Amelia Terkel, Don J. Katcoff

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: parentage, paternity, rapd, rhino

2002

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