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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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The Four Cs of Psychological Wellbeing: Lessons from Three Decades of Computer-based Environmental Enrichment

Authors: D.A. Washburn

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: challenge, comfort, companionship, control, environmental enrichment, psychological wellbeing, Rumbaughx

2015

Birdsongs keep pace with city life: changes in song over time in an urban songbird affects communication

Authors: D.A. Luther, E.P. Derryberry

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: ambient noise, birdsong, communication, cultural evolution, signal salience, urban

2012

Behavioral Evidence For The Cutaneous Expression Of Emotion In A Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: David A. Leavens, Filippo Aureli, William D. Hopkins

Publication/Journal: Behaviour

Keywords: behavioral asymmetries, behavioural asymmetries, chimpanzees (pan troglodytes), cognitive stress, emotions, scratching, self-directed behaviors, self-directed behaviour

2004

Referential Communication by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: D.A. Leavens, W.D. Hopkins, R.K. Thomas

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal behavior, animal behaviour, animal communication, animals, female, gestures, male, pan troglodytes, photic stimulation, reaction time, reproducibility of results, semantics

2004

Spontaneous discrimination of natural stimuli by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: D.A. Brown, S.T. Boysen

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: attention, discrimination learning, humans, paired-associate learning, pan troglodytes/psychology, pattern recognition, problem solving, species specificity, visual

2000

Effect of acute stress on plasma concentrations of sex and stress hormones in juvenile alligators living in control and contaminated lakes

Authors: L.J. Guillette Jr, D.A. Crain, A.A. Rooney, A.R. Woodward

Publication/Journal: Journal of Herpetology

Keywords: alligator, alligator mississippiensis, corticosterone, cortisol, environmental contamination, estradiol, glucocorticoid, stress, testicular activity

1997

Responses of Cotton-Top Tamarins (Saguinus Oedipus) to Faecal Scents of Predators and Non-predators

Authors: H. M. Buchanan-Smith, D.A. Anderson, C.W. Ryan

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, callitrichidae, cotton-top tamarins, faecal scents, predators

1993

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