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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=Emma%20M.%20Malcolm&ignore=title%2Cabstract%2Cpublication%2Ckeywords

The welfare problems of wide-ranging Carnivora reflect naturally itinerant lifestyles

Authors: Miranda Bandeli, Emma L. Mellor, Jeanette Kroshko, Hafiz Maherali, Georgia J. Mason

Publication/Journal: Royal Society Open Science

Keywords: captivity, carnivora, choice, control, welfare, zoos

2023

Primate cognition in zoos: Reviewing the impact of zoo‐based research over 15 years

Authors: Emma S McEwen, Elizabeth Warren, Sadie Tenpas, Benjamin Jones, Kresimir Durdevic, Emilie Rapport Munro, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: cognition, primate, zoo

2022

Recognising emotional expressions in captive bottlenose dolphins: Can lay observers agree using qualitative behavioural assessment?

Authors: Emma Warner, Sabrina Brando, Françoise Wemelsfelder

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal welfare assessment, aquarium, captive dolphins, dolphin behaviour, free choice profiling, qualitative behaviour assessment, tursiops-truncatus, zoo

2022

CHALLENGES TO ANIMAL WELFARE DURING TRANSPORTATION OF WILD MAMMALS: A REVIEW (1990–2020)

Authors: Friederike Pohlin, Emma H Hooijberg, Leith CR Meyer

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Keywords: animal welfare, transport

2021

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show subtle signs of uncertainty when choices are more difficult

Authors: Matthias Allritz, Emma Suvi McEwen, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Cognition

Keywords: chimpanzee, epistemic emotions, feelings of uncertainty, procedural metacognition, transitive inference

2021

Enclosure Use as a Measure of Behavioral Welfare in Zoo-Housed African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus)

Authors: Eduardo Fernandez, Emma Harvey

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: african wild dogs, captive welfare, enclosure use, entropy, spatial distribution, zoos

2021

Insights into Activity of Zoo Housed Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) during Periods of Limited Staff and Visitor Presence, a Focus on Resting Behaviour

Authors: Katherine Finch, Fiona Sach, Malcolm Fitzpatrick, Lewis J Rowden

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, evidence-based management, resting, sleep, social behavior

2021

Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots

Authors: Emma L Mellor, Heather K McDonald Kinkaid, Michael T Mendl, Innes C Cuthill, Yvonne RA van Zeeland, Georgia J Mason

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Keywords: abnormal behavior, animal welfare, captive breeding, parrots, phylogenetic comparative methods, stress

2021

Effects of personality and rearing-history on the welfare of captive Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica)

Authors: Sitendu Goswami, Praveen C Tyagi, Pradeep K Malik, Shwetank J Pandit, Riyazahmed F Kadivar, Malcolm Fitzpatrick, Samrat Mondol

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: asiatic lion, captivity, personality, rearing, welfare

2020

Longitudinal Improvements in Zoo-Housed Elephant Welfare: A Case Study at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Authors: Katherine Finch, Fiona Sach, Malcolm Fitzpatrick, Nic Masters, Lewis J Rowden

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, asian elephant, behaviour, elephas maximus, resting, social, SSSMZP

2020

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