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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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Abnormal swimming is associated with inner ear damage and improves with meclizine treatment and increased habitat complexity: A case study in Urobatis jamaicensis

Authors: Lauren Puishys, Natalie Mylniczenko, Ryan De Voe, Alisha Fredrickson, Dani Salles, Todd Harmon, Scott Martin, Leah Maurer, Austin Leeds

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: animal behaviour, animal health, animal welfare, aquarium science, elasmobranch, vestibular disease

2024

Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective

Authors: Lauren Cassidy, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail, Dana Pfefferle

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal behavior, neuroscience, veterinary medicine, zoology

2024

The effects of human-zoo ambassador animal interactions on millennial populations

Authors: Brittany Fischer, Madeline Winans, Kimberly Cole, Sara Adamczak, Lauren Sommers, Kelly Ann George

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: education, human-animal interactions, millennial, welfare, zoo animals

2024

JZAR Special Edition: Proceedings of the 12th European Zoo Nutrition Conference in Riga, Latvia, 20–22 September 2023

Authors: Lauren Samet, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: feeding, feeding guidelines, zoo nutrition

2023

Investigating Welfare Metrics for Snakes at the Saint Louis Zoo

Authors: Lauren Augustine, Eli Baskir, Corinne P Kozlowski, Stephen Hammack, Justin Elden, Mark D Wanner, Ashley D Franklin, David M Powell

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords:

2022

Use of Blood Lactate in Assessment of Manual Capture Techniques of Zoo-Housed Crocodilians

Authors: Holly Grace Molinaro, Gen S Anderson, Lauren Gruny, Emily S Sperou, Darryl J Heard

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: captivity, physiology, reptile, restraint, welfare, wellbeing

2022

Happiness, Welfare, and Personality in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Authors: Lauren M Robinson, Natalie K Waran, Ian Handel, Matthew C Leach

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: coping, monkey, psychometrics, temperament, validation

2021

Aquarium Tank Design Is Integral to the Elimination of Mantle Abrasion in the Captive Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa): A Case Study at Macduff Marine Aquarium

Authors: Lauren E Smith, Christopher Rowe, Frazer Mackay, Claire Matthews, Christopher GG Matthews

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: abrasion, aquarium, husbandry, octopus, welfare

2020

Impacts of the season and reproductive status on fecal reproductive and adrenocortical steroid metabolites in zoo Cuban crocodiles (Crocodylus rhombifer)

Authors: Lauren Augustine, Kyle Miller, Alan Peters, Ashley D Franklin, Cathleen M Steinbeiser, Janine L Brown, Natalia A Prado

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: crocodilians, fecal hormone metabolites, zoo management

2020

Challenges and solutions: An analysis of community-reported needs of AZA collaboratively managed animal populations

Authors: Lauren Wilson, Candice Dorsey, Donald Moore

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: population health, population management, SSP program, sustainability

2019

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