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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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Assessing Visitor Effects on Zoo Animals

Authors: Mark J Learmonth, Paul H Hemsworth

Publication/Journal: Human-Animal Interactions in Zoos: Integrating Science and Practice

Keywords: animal welfare, HAI, human-animal interactions, visitor effects

2024

Assessing zoo giraffe survivorship: Methodological aspects, historical improvement and a rapid demographic shift

Authors: Lara Scherer, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Max Hahn-Klimroth, Dennis Müller, Marco Roller, Mads Bertelsen, Jörg Jebram, Paul Dierkes, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: giraffa camelopardalis, husbandry, mortality, progress, survival

2024

Effects of Enclosure Complexity and Design on Behaviour and Physiology in Captive Animals

Authors: Andrew Smith, Paul Rose, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: behavior, captive animals, enclosure complexity, enclosure design, physiology

2024

Introducing the Mellorater—The Five Domains Model in a Welfare Monitoring App for Animal Guardians

Authors: Cristina L. Wilkins, Paul D. McGreevy, Suzanne M. Cosh, Cathrynne Henshall, Bidda Jones, Amy D. Lykins, William Billingsley

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal husbandry, end-of-life decisions, quality of life, welfare assessment

2024

Nightly space use of African ungulates in zoos

Authors: Jennifer Gübert, Paul W. Dierkes

Publication/Journal: Discover Animals

Keywords: animal behavior, animal management, bovids, deep learning software, husbandry, nocturnal behavior, okapia johnstoni, zoo animal

2024

Personality Characteristics Predictive of Social Pairing Outcome in Orange-Winged Amazon Parrots (Amazona amazonica)

Authors: Jamie M. Douglas, Joanne Paul-Murphy, Elizabeth Stelow, David Sanchez-Migallon Guzman, Irina Udaltsova

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: amazon parrots, amazona amazonica, compatibility, orange-winged, pair housing, personality assessment, welfare

2024

A preliminary global investigation into potential impacts on successful captive breeding for two species of Rhyticeros hornbill

Authors: Kees Groot, James E Brereton, Catherine E King, Paul Rose

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: breeding success, evidence‐based husbandry, Papuan hornbill, questionnaire, wreathed hornbill

2024

Sixty Years of Tinbergen’s Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary

Authors: Robert Kelly, Paul Rose

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal management, behavioural ecology, causation, conservation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny, zoo animal husbandry

2024

Stereotypic Behaviour in Elephants

Authors: Paul A Rees

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases

Keywords: elephant, stereotypic behaviour, zoo

2024

Age-Related Change in the Association Choices of Two Species of Juvenile Flamingos

Authors: Abbie Loader, Paul Rose

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal husbandry, animal welfare, association, behavioural development, enclosure use, flamingo

2023

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