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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.
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Additional foraging elements reduce abnormal behaviour – fur-chewing and stereotypic behaviour – in farmed mink (Neovison vison)

Authors: Jens Malmkvist, Rupert Palme, Pernille M. Svendsen, Steffen W. Hansen

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: foraging, fur-chewing, neovison vison aka mustela vison, stereotypies, stress, welfare

2013

Novelty exploration, baseline cortisol level and fur-chewing in farm mink with different intensities of stereotypic behaviour

Authors: Pernille M. Svendsen, Rupert Palme, Jens Malmkvist

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: abnormal behaviour, animal welfare, fur-chewing, mustela vison syn. neovison vison, stereotypic behaviour

2013

Responses of mink to auditory stimuli: Prerequisites for applying the ‘cognitive bias’ approach

Authors: Pernille M. Svendsen, Jens Malmkvist, Ulrich Halekoh, Michael Mendl

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: *cognitive bias, american mink, associative learning, auditory discrimination, neovison vison aka mustela vison

2012

Selection against stereotypic behaviour may have contradictory consequences for the welfare of farm mink (Mustela vison)

Authors: Pernille Maj Svendsen, Bente Krogh Hansen, Jens Malmkvist, Steffen Werner Hansen, Rupert Palme, Leif Lau Jeppesen

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: faecal cortisol metabolites, mink, selection, stereotypies, temperament, welfare

2007

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