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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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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

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

Evidence of high individual variability in seed management by scatter-hoarding rodents: does ‘personality’ matter?

Authors: Mariano Feldman, Mariona Ferrandiz-Rovira, Josep Maria Espelta, Alberto Muñoz

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: individual variation, personality, predation risk, scatter-hoarding rodent, seed dispersal

2019

Environmental enrichment facilitates release and survival of an injured loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) after ten years in captivity

Authors: Tania Monreal-Pawlowsky, Vicente Marco-Cabedo, Xavier Manteca, Gemma Palencia Membrive, Josep Sanjosé, Oriol Fuentes, Elsa Jiménez

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: caretta caretta, environmental enrichment, fore flipper loss, loggerhead sea turtle, release to wild

2017

Differences in between-reinforcer value modulate the selective-value effect in great apes (Pan troglodytes, P. Paniscus, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo abelii)

Authors: Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro, Mar Peretó, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *animal feeding behavior, *choice behavior, *food preferences, bonobos, chimpanzees, decision-making, discrimination, economics, gorillas, monkeys

2016

Nasal temperature drop in response to a playback of conspecific fights in chimpanzees: A thermo-imaging study

Authors: Fumihiro Kano, Satoshi Hirata, Tobias Deschner, Verena Behringer, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: aggression, emotion, great ape, skin temperature, thermo-imaging

2016

Effect of different management techniques to enhance colostrum intake on piglets’ growth and mortality

Authors: R. Muns, X. Manteca, J. Gasa

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, colostrum intake, colostrum supplementation, management routines, pig, sow

2015

Effect of gestation management system on gilt and piglet performance

Authors: R. Muns, E. G. Manzanilla, X. Manteca, J. Gasa

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, gestation, gestation management, gilt, management, pig, piglet

2014

Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, recognize successful actions, but fail to imitate them

Authors: David Buttelmann, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: attention, chimpanzee, intention understanding, nonhuman primate, pan troglodytes, social learning

2013

Repeated innovation in great apes

Authors: Héctor Marín Manrique, Christoph J. Völter, Josep Call

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: cognitive flexibility, great ape, inhibitory control, innovation, primates, prior knowledge, problem solving, puzzle box

2013

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