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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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Long-Term Assessment of Captive Chimpanzees: Influence of Social Group Composition, Seasonality and Biographic Background

Authors: Arnau Pascual, Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter, David Riba, Dietmar Crailsheim

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: adverse early life experiences, behavior, captive care, chimpanzee, group alterations, group composition, seasonality, social network analysis

2023

Behavioural Development of Three Former Pet Chimpanzees a Decade after Arrival at the MONA Sanctuary

Authors: Olga Feliu, Marti Masip, Carmen Maté, Sònia Sánchez-López, Dietmar Crailsheim, Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: activity budget, chimpanzee, early life experience, pan troglodytes, pet and entertainment, re-socialization, sanctuary, well-being

2022

Looking for Visitor’s Effect in Sanctuaries: Implications of Guided Visitor Groups on the Behavior of the Chimpanzees at Fundació Mona

Authors: Jana López-Álvarez, Yaiza Sanjorge, Sara Soloaga, Dietmar Crailsheim, Miquel Llorente

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behavior, captivity, chimpanzee, human interaction, sanctuary, visitor effect, welfare

2019

Personality Assessment and Its Association With Genetic Factors in Captive Asian and African Elephants

Authors: Saki Yasui, Akitsugu Konno, Masayuki Tanaka, Gen'ichi Idani, Arne Ludwig, Dietmar Lieckfeldt, Miho Inoue-Murayama

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavioral traits, polymorphism, questionnaire

2013

The circadian body temperature rhythm of Djungarian Hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) revealing different circadian phenotypes

Authors: Konrad Schöttner, Jim Waterhouse, Dietmar Weinert

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: arrhythmic activity patterns, body temperature, circadian rhythm, djungarian hamster, motor activity, unmasking

2011

Human laughter, social play, and play vocalizations of non-human primates: an evolutionary approach

Authors: Vettin, Julia; Todt, Dietmar

Publication/Journal: Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic analysis, evolution of, human laughter, laughter, primate play vocalizations, social play, tickling

2005

Relationship between feeding time and food intake in hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) and the value of feeding time as predictor of food intake

Authors: Dietmar Zinner

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavioral methods, feeding time, food intake, foraging studies, papio hamadryas

1999

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