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  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
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The fate and movements of aquarium-released giant trevally Caranx ignobilis inferred from acoustic telemetry

Authors: Bruce Quintin Mann, Ryan Daly, Russell Bruce Dixon, John David Filmalter, Taryn Sara Murray, Paul Denfer Cowley, Robert Kyle, Simon Chater, Judy Brenda Mann-Lang

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: acoustic telemetry, aquariums, Carangidae, south africa, uShaka Sea World

2023

Developing a Reliable Welfare Assessment Tool for Captive Hibernatory Bear Species

Authors: Chloe J Maher, Angela Gibson, Laura M Dixon, Heather Bacon

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, bear, keeper ratings, ursidae, welfare assessment, zoo animal welfare

2021

Farm animal welfare: assessing risks attributable to the prenatal environment

Authors: K. M. D. Rutherford, R. D. Donald, G. Arnott, J. A. Rooke, L. Dixon, J. J. M. Mehers, J. Turnbull, A. B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, early life, farming, foetal, gestation, prenatal

2012

Changes in Substrate Access Did Not Affect Early Feather-Pecking Behavior in Two Strains of Laying Hen Chicks

Authors: Laura M. Dixon, Ian J. H. Duncan

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: chickens, feather pecking, substrate

2010

The effects of four types of enrichment on feather-pecking behaviour in laying hens housed in barren environments

Authors: L. M. Dixon, I. J. H. Duncan, G.J. Mason

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, chicken, enrichment, feather pecking, motivation, stereotypic behavior, stereotypic behaviour

2010

The effect of diet change on the behaviour of layer pullets

Authors: G. Dixon, C.J. Nicol

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cannibalism, chicken, diet, feather pecking, laying hen

2008

What’s in a peck? Using fixed action pattern morphology to identify the motivational basis of abnormal feather-pecking behaviour

Authors: L. M. Dixon, I. J. H. Duncan, G. Mason

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: chicken, dustbathing, feather pecking, fixed action patterns, foraging, gallus gallus, motivation, welfare

2008

Spatial Distribution of a Population of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum: Phrynosomatidae) Relative to Habitat and Prey

Authors: Martin J. Whiting, James R. Dixon, Roy C. Murray

Publication/Journal: The Southwestern Naturalist

Keywords: habitat, horned lizard, pogonomyrmex barbatus, spatial distribution

1993

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