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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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Kibble diet is associated with higher faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in zoo-managed red wolves (Canis rufus)

Authors: Morgan Bragg, Carly R Muletz-Wolz, Nucharin Songsasen, Elizabeth W Freeman

Publication/Journal: Conservation Physiology

Keywords: animal welfare, diet, fecal glucocorticoid metabolites, Red wolf, zoo management

2024

Providing baseline data for conservation–Heart rate monitoring in captive scimitar-horned oryx

Authors: Peter Leimgruber, Nucharin Songsasen, Jared A Stabach, Megan Horning, Dolores Reed, Tara Buk, Arielle Harwood, Lawrence Layman, Christopher Mathews, Morgan Vance

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Physiology

Keywords: heart rate monitoring, oryx

2023

Activity pattern, reproductive behaviors and gonadal hormones in the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)

Authors: S. Rudert, J. L. Brown, U. Gansloßer, G. Möbius, N. Songsasen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behaviors in enclosures, gender determination, gonadal hormones, non-invasive hormone analysis, raccoon dog, reproduction

2011

Behavioral and physiologic responses to environmental enrichment in the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

Authors: Dawn Cummings, Janine L. Brown, Melissa D. Rodden, Nucharin Songsasen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: behavior response, corticoids, enrichment, maned wolf

2007

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