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Our Goals

  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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Cumulative experience, age-class, sex and season affect the behavioural responses of European badgers (Meles meles) to handling and sedation

Authors: Q. Sun, C. Stevens, C. Newman, C. D. Buesching, D. W. Macdonald

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, badger, behavioural response, injection, restraint, sedation

2015

Influence of environmental conditions and facility on faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in captive pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis)

Authors: C. D. Scarlata, B. A. Elias, J. R. Godwin, R. A. Powell, D. Shepherdson, L. A. Shipley, J. L. Brown

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, captive breeding, environmental enrichment, faecal glucocorticoids, husbandry, pygmy rabbit

2013

Freshwater Pearl Mussels Show Plasticity of Responses to Different Predation Risks But Also Show Consistent Individual Differences in Responsiveness

Authors: C. D. Wilson, G. Arnott, R. W. Elwood

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: behavioral syndrome, behavioral trade-off, behavioural syndrome, behavioural trade-off, margaritifera margaritifera, novel stimulus, predation, startle duration

2012

A review of scientific literature on inherited disorders in domestic horse breeds

Authors: C. D. Bettley, J. M. Cardwell, L. M. Collins, L. Asher

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, breed, disease, horse, inherited defect, quality of life

2012

The effect of management system on mortality and other welfare indicators in Pennsylvania dairy herds

Authors: C. D. Dechow, E. A. Smith, R. C. Goodling

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, culling, dairy cattle, housing, management, mortality

2011

Does feeding area restriction inhibit social learning of toxic weed ingestion in cattle?

Authors: K. T. Jackson, A. F. Cibils, W. R. Gould, J. D. Graham, C. D. Allison

Publication/Journal: animal

Keywords: diet selection, social facilitation, social interference, white locoweed

2010

Female reproductive parameters in the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch)

Authors: Sarah Hodgkiss, Ernie Thetford, C. D. Waitt, Vincent Nijman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: interbirth intervals, menarche, ovarian cycles, sexual maturity

2010

The ecology of individuals-incidence and implications for individual specialization

Authors: D. I. Bolnick, R. Svanbäck, J. A. Fordyce, L. H. Yang, J. M. Davis, C. D. Hulsey, M. L. Forister

Publication/Journal: The American Naturalist

Keywords: animals, biological, biological evolution, conservation natural resources, ecology, genetic variation, models, sample size, species specificity

2003

Housing and welfare in laboratory rats: effects of cage stocking density and behavioural predictors of welfare

Authors: J. L. Hurst, C. J. Barnard, U. Tolladay, C. M. Nevison, C. D. West

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: alderley park rats, antibody, cage groups, competitive behavior, competitive behaviour, corticosterone, group-size, laboratory, rat, testosterone, time budgets, welfare

1999

Public perceptions of behavioral enrichment: Assumptions gone awry

Authors: M. E. McPhee, J. S. Foster, M. Sevenich, C. D. Saunders

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: education, exhibit, naturalism, zoo

1998

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