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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=Drew%20Dawson&ignore=title%2Cabstract%2Cpublication%2Ckeywords

The effect of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on self-directed behaviour, activity budgets, movement patterns, and spatial use in semi-captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana)

Authors: Primrose Manning, Elisabeth Dawson, Christina Tholander, Maud Bonato

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: Animal tourism venues, Anthropause, Captive animal welfare, COVID-19, displacement activity, human-animal interactions

2023

Future Directions for Personality Research: Contributing New Insights to the Understanding of Animal Behavior

Authors: Vanessa Wilson, Anja Guenther, Oyvind Overli, Martin W. Seltmann, Drew Altschul

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, developmental plasticity, endocrinology, fitness, individual differences, longevity, personality, stress coping, wellbeing

2019

Evaluation of a canine and feline behavioural welfare assessment tool for use in companion animal veterinary practice

Authors: Lauren C. Dawson, Cate E. Dewey, Elizabeth A. Stone, Michele T. Guerin, Lee Niel

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal welfare, cat, dog, veterinary practice, welfare assessment

2018

Chimpanzees with positive welfare are happier, extraverted, and emotionally stable

Authors: Lauren M. Robinson, Drew M. Altschul, Emma K. Wallace, Yulán Úbeda, Miquel Llorente, Zarin Machanda, Katie E. Slocombe, Matthew C. Leach, Natalie K. Waran, Alexander Weiss

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, chimpanzee, happiness, pan troglodytes, personality, welfare

2017

Is music enriching for group-housed captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)?

Authors: Emma K. Wallace, Drew Altschul, Karoline Körfer, Benjamin Benti, Amanda Kaeser, Susan Lambeth, Bridget M. Waller, Katie E. Slocombe

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: chimpanzees, enrichment, music

2017

A new marker based on the avian spindlin gene that is able to sex most birds, including species problematic to sex with CHD markers

Authors: Deborah A. Dawson, Natalie dos Remedios, Gavin J. Horsburgh

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aves, bird, data validation, sex typing, spindlin gene, w and z chromosomes

2016

A survey of animal welfare experts and practicing veterinarians to identify and explore key factors thought to influence canine and feline welfare in relation to veterinary care

Authors: L. C. Dawson, C. E. Dewey, E. A. Stone, M. T. Guerin, L. Niel

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, assessment, cat, companion animal, dog, veterinary practice

2016

Early-life stress affects song complexity, song learning and volume of the brain nucleus RA in adult male song sparrows

Authors: Kim L. Schmidt, S. Drew Moore, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference

2013

Providing ‘get-away bunks’ and other enrichments to primiparous adult female mink improves their reproductive productivity

Authors: Misha Buob, Rebecca Meagher, Lauren Dawson, Rupert Palme, Derek Haley, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bunks, cortisol, enrichments, infant mortality, mink, nursing sickness, welfare

2013

Providing elevated ‘getaway bunks’ to nursing mink dams improves their health and welfare

Authors: Lauren Dawson, Misha Buob, Derek Haley, Steve Miller, Judy Stryker, Margaret Quinton, Georgia Mason

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: bunks, mastitis, mink, nursing, nursing sickness, welfare

2013

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