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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=R.%20R.%20Zenuto&ignore=title%2Cabstract%2Cpublication%2Ckeywords

Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of bonobo emotional expressivity across observer groups and zoo housing environments

Authors: Daan W. Laméris, Marina Salas, Marcel Eens, Lisa Gillespie, Nicky Staes, Jonas R. R. Torfs, Jonas Verspeek, Hilde Vervaecke, Samantha J. Ward, Jeroen M. G. Stevens

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, emotion, Fixed List, free choice profiling, primate, qba

2024

The quest to develop automated systems for monitoring animal behavior

Authors: Janice M. Siegford, Juan P. Steibel, Junjie Han, Madonna Benjamin, Tami Brown-Brandl, Joao R. R. Dórea, Daniel Morris, Tomas Norton, Eric Psota, Guilherme J. M. Rosa

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal behavior, Automated monitoring technology, observation, sensors

2023

Visually assessed body condition shows high heritability in a pedigreed great ape population

Authors: Jonas R. R. Torfs, Marcel Eens, Daan W. Laméris, Jeroen M. G. Stevens, Jonas Verspeek, Jean-Pascal Guery, Nicky Staes

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: animal models, body condition score, bonobo, relative fat mass

2023

Genetic guidelines for captive breeding and reintroductions of the endangered Black-fronted Piping Guan, Aburria jacutinga (galliformes, cracidae), an Atlantic Forest endemic

Authors: Paulo R. R. Oliveira-Jr, Mariellen C. Costa, Luis F. Silveira, Mercival R. Francisco

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: aves, conservation, endangered species, genetic variability, management

2016

An initial investigation into the effects of isolation and enrichment on the welfare of laboratory pigs housed in the PigTurn® system, assessed using tear staining, behaviour, physiology and haematology

Authors: S. P. DeBoer, J. P. Garner, R. R. McCain, D. C. Lay Jr, S. D. Eicher, J. N. Marchant-Forde

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cortisol, enrichment, isolation, pigs, tear staining

2015

Short-term anxiety response of the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum to odors from a predator

Authors: V. Brachetta, C. E. Schleich, R. R. Zenuto

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: anxiety, ctenomys talarum, predation, subterranean rodent

2015

Plasma cortisol and noradrenalin concentrations in pigs: automated sampling of freely moving pigs housed in the PigTurn versus manually sampled and restrained pigs

Authors: J. N. Marchant-Forde, D. L. Matthews, R. Poletto, R. R. McCain, D. D. Mann, R. T. Degraw, J. M. Hampsch, S. Peters, G. T. Knipp, C. B. Kissinger

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, blood sampling, cortisol, noradrenalin, pigs, restraint

2012

The conservation-welfare nexus in reintroduction programmes: a role for sensory ecology

Authors: R. R. Swaisgood

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, conservation breeding, habitat selection, reintroduction, sensory ecology, stress

2010

Neonate rats demonstrate high levels of retention for odour preference when a substantially reduced training trial of two minutes is used

Authors: R.P Ogeil, T.M Edwards

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, memory, neonates, odour preference, olfactory discrimination, rats

2009

How cross-fostered chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) initiate and maintain conversations

Authors: M.D. Bodamer, R.A Gardner

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal communication, animals, attention, female, male, nonverbal communication, pan troglodytes/psychology, social environment

2002

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