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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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Human-marmoset interactions in a city park

Authors: Giovana C. Leite, Marina H. L. Duarte, Robert J. Young

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behavioural observations, feeding, human-marmoset interactions, interviews, questionnaires

2011

A meta-analysis of the combined effect of housing and environmental enrichment characteristics on the behaviour and performance of pigs

Authors: Xavier Averós, Ludovic Brossard, Jean-Yves Dourmad, Karel H. de Greef, Helen L. Edge, Sandra A. Edwards, Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: enrichment, group-size, k-value, meta-analysis, pig, slat

2010

Quantitative assessment of the effects of space allowance, group size and floor characteristics on the lying behaviour of growing-finishing pigs

Authors: X. Averós, L. Brossard, J. Y. Dourmad, K. H. de Greef, H. L. Edge, S. A. Edwards, M. C. Meunier-Salaün

Publication/Journal: animal

Keywords: growing-finishing pig, lying behaviour, meta-analysis, slatted floor, space requirement

2009

The effect of different degrees of ‘positive’ human-animal interaction during rearing on the welfare and subsequent production of commercial dairy heifers

Authors: Catherine Bertenshaw, Peter Rowlinson, Helen Edge, Simon Douglas, Robert Shiel

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dairy heifers, milking parlour behaviour, positive human-animal interaction, production, rearing, welfare

2008

Endocrine and ultrasonographic characterization of a successful pregnancy in a Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) supplemented with a synthetic progestin

Authors: T. L. Roth, H. L. Bateman, J. L. Kroll, B. G. Steinetz, P. R. Reinhart

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: embryo, fetus, parturition, progesterone, prolactin, relaxin

2004

The separate and interactive effects of handling and environmental enrichment on the behaviour and welfare of growing pigs

Authors: J. E. L. Day, H. A. M. Spoolder, A. Burfoot, H. L. Chamberlain, S. A. Edwards

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behaviour, environmental enrichment, pigs

2002

Leuprolide acetate can reversibly prevent egg laying in cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus)

Authors: J. R. Millam, H. L. Finney

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: chronic laying, egg production, gnrh, nesting behavior, psittacines

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