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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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Personality in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Temporal stability and methods of assessment

Authors: Lucy Rutherford, Lindsay Murray, Lisa Holmes, Ellen Williams

Publication/Journal: Personality and Individual Differences

Keywords: elephant, personality, scale, TIPI, welfare

2025


Material and food exploration by zoo‐housed animals can inform cognition and enrichment apparatus design

Authors: Fay E Clark, Lucy Chivers, Olivia Pearson

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, cognition, enrichment, zoo

2022


Personality and behavioral changes in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) following the death of herd members

Authors: Lucy Rutherford, Lindsay E Murray

Publication/Journal: Integrative Zoology

Keywords: animal behavior, elephants, herd, mortality, personality, socialization

2021


Development of a behavioural welfare assessment tool for routine use with captive elephants

Authors: Lisa Yon, Ellen Williams, Naomi D. Harvey, Lucy Asher

Publication/Journal: PLoS ONE

Keywords: elephant, welfare, welfare assessment

2019


A comparison of inferential analysis methods for multilevel studies: Implications for drawing conclusions in animal welfare science

Authors: Kara N. Stevens, Lucy Asher, Kym Griffin, Mary Friel, Niamh O'Connell, Lisa M. Collins

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal health, animal welfare, mixed effect models, pig, sample size, study design

2017


Effects of Video Footage Versus Photographs on Perception of Dog Behavioral Traits

Authors: Chloe Pyzer, Lucy Clarke, V. Tamara Montrose

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: behavioral traits, dog adoption, photograph, rehoming, video

2017


An evidence-based decision assistance model for predicting training outcome in juvenile guide dogs

Authors: Naomi D. Harvey, Peter J. Craigon, Simon A. Blythe, Gary C. W. England, Lucy Asher

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: decision assistance model, guide dogs

2017


Why do dogs play? Function and welfare implications of play in the domestic dog

Authors: Rebecca Sommerville, Emily A. O’Connor, Lucy Asher

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, domestic dog, function, play

2017


Do hens have friends?

Authors: Siobhan M. Abeyesinghe, Julian A. Drewe, Lucy Asher, Christopher M. Wathes, Lisa M. Collins

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: affiliative behaviour, domestic fowl, social network analysis, social preference, spatial distribution

2013


Feeding nestlings does not function as a signal of social prestige in cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babblers

Authors: Fumiaki Y. Nomano, Lucy E. Browning, Lee A. Rollins, Shinichi Nakagawa, Simon C. Griffith, Andrew F. Russell

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: audience effect, chestnut-crowned babbler, delayed benefit, direct benefit, image scoring, indirect reciprocity, pomatostomus ruficeps

2013


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