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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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A review of interspecific social play among nonhuman animals

Authors: Heather J. B. Brooks, Gordon M. Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: animal play, cognition, communication, Heterospecific play, Interspecies play, Reddit, social play, species recognition, youtube

2023

The Effect of Substrate on Water Quality in Ornamental Fish Tanks

Authors: Myriam Vanderzwalmen, Daniel Sánchez Lacalle, Priyadarshini Tamilselvan, Jason McNeill, Dorine Delieuvin, Khadidja Behlouli, Andrew Hursthouse, Iain McLellan, Mhairi E Alexander, Fiona L Henriquez

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: environmental enrichment, gravel substrate, home aquaria, ornamental fishes, sand substrate, substrate enrichment

2022

Monitoring water quality changes and ornamental fish behaviour during commercial transport

Authors: Myriam Vanderzwalmen, Jason McNeill, Dorine Delieuvin, Simona Senes, Daniel Sanchez-Lacalle, Carrie Mullen, Iain McLellan, Peter Carey, Donna Snellgrove, Andy Foggo

Publication/Journal: Aquaculture

Keywords: behaviour, fish pathogens, ornamental fishes, transport, water chemistry, welfare

2020

Successful treatment of infertility in a female Sumatran orangutan Pongo abelii

Authors: Neil Maclachlan, Gordon Hunt, Sarah Fowkes, Melissa Frost, John Miller, Gari Purcell-Jones, Peter Sullivan, Alberto Barbon, Andrew Routh, Francisco J. López, Eluned C. Price

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: hysterosalpingography (hsg), operant conditioning, pressurized fallopian tube perfusion, proximal tube obstruction (pto), ultrasound

2017

Effects of Metabolic Cage Housing on Rat Behavior and Performance in the Social Interaction Test

Authors: Alexandra L. Whittaker, Kerry A. Lymn, Gordon S. Howarth

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: behavior, housing, metabolic cage, refinement, social interaction

2016

Cognitive bias, hand preference and welfare of common marmosets

Authors: Dianne J. Gordon, Lesley J. Rogers

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research

Keywords: *cognitive bias, ambiguous stimulus, common marmoset, hand preference, hemispheric dominance, welfare

2015

A Brief Glimpse at the Long Evolutionary History of Play

Authors: Gordon M. Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: animals, evolution, play, play definition, play functions, play origins, surplus resource theory

2014

Use of spontaneous behaviour measures to assess pain in laboratory rats and mice: How are we progressing?

Authors: Alexandra L. Whittaker, Gordon S. Howarth

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: acute pain, behaviour, chronic pain, mice, pain assessment, rats, welfare

2014

Opportunities for Public Aquariums to Increase the Sustainability of the Aquatic Animal Trade

Authors: Michael F. Tlusty, Andrew L. Rhyne, Les Kaufman, Michael Hutchins, Gordon McGregor Reid, Chris Andrews, Paul Boyle, Jay Hemdal, Frazer McGilvray, Scott Dowd

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aquaculture, fisheries, ornamental fish hobby, pet trade, public aquarium, sustainability, tropical fish

2013

Prey availability influences the ontogeny and timing of chemoreception-based prey shifting in the striped crayfish snake, Regina alleni

Authors: R. Mark Waters, Gordon M. Burghardt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: chemoreception, crayfish snake, ontogeny, prey availability

2013

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