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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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In search of the behavioural correlates of optical flow patterns in the automated assessment of broiler chicken welfare

Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins, Russell Cain, Kathryn Merelie, Stephen J. Roberts

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour, broiler chicken welfare, gait, hockburn, optical-flow, pododermatitis

2013

Individual variation in testosterone and parental care in a female songbird; The dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis)

Authors: Kristal E. Cain, Ellen D. Ketterson

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: dark-eyed junco (junco hyemalis), endogenous steroids, gonadotropin releasing hormone (gnrh), life history tradeoffs, maternal care, testosterone, yolk hormones

2013

Economic evaluation of high welfare indoor farrowing systems for pigs

Authors: J. H. Guy, P. J. Cain, Y. M. Seddon, E. M. Baxter, S. A. Edwards

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, economics, farrowing, housing systems, husbandry, pig

2012

Habitat and Resource Partitioning Between Abundant and Relatively Rare Grazing Ungulates

Authors: V.A. Macandza, N. Owen-Smith, J.W. Cain, V. Hayssen

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoology

Keywords: competition, diet selection, equus quagga, grazers, hippotragus niger, niche breadth, rarity, resource partitioning, syncerus caffer

2012

Optical Flow, Flock Behaviour and Chicken Welfare

Authors: M.S. Dawkins, R. Cain, S.J. Roberts

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: animal welfare, broiler chicken, collective behavior, collective behaviour, contact dermatitis, gait, gallus gallus, optical-flow, welfare assessment

2012

Estrous state influences on investigative, aggressive, and tail flicking behavior in captive female Asian elephants

Authors: Barbara E. Slade-Cain, L. E. L. Rasmussen, Bruce A. Schulte

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: communication, elephas maximus, follicular, luteal, progesterone

2008

Effects of pregnancy on spatial cognition in female Hooded Long-Evans rats

Authors: Karin J. Bodensteiner, Peter Cain, Andrea S. Ray, Lyndsey A. Hamula

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: cognition, hippocampus, hormone, pregnancy, rat, spatial memory, water maze

2006

Environmental enrichment decreases responding for visual novelty

Authors: Cain, ME. Green, TA. Bardo, MT.

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: enrichment, environmental stimuli, operant conditioning, rats, social partners

2006

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