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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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Too hungry to learn? Hungry broiler breeders fail to learn a Y-maze food quantity discrimination task

Authors: L.A. Buckley, L.M. McMillan, V. Sandilands, B.J. Tolkamp, P.M. Hocking, R.B. D'Eath

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, broiler breeders, choice test, feed restriction, learning, stress

2011

A cage without a view increases stress and impairs cognitive performance in rats

Authors: Harris, A.P.; D'Eath, R.B.; Healy, S.D.

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, rats, spatial cognition, stress, thigmotaxis, visual isolation

2010

Selection against aggressiveness in pigs at re-grouping: practical application and implications for long-term behavioural patterns

Authors: S.P. Turner, R.B. D’Eath, R. Roehe, A.B. Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: aggression, animal welfare, genetic correlation, heritability, pigs, selective breeding

2010

Assessing the human–animal relationship in farmed species: A critical review

Authors: S. Waiblinger, X. Boivin, V. Pedersen, M.V. Tosi, A.M. Janczak, E.K. Visser, R.B. Jones

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: assessment, farm animals, human-animal relationships, tests, welfare

2006

Feather pecking in poultry- the application of science in a search for practical solutions

Authors: Jones, R.B.; Blokhuis, H.J.; de Jong, I.C.; Keeling, L.J.; McAdie, T.M.; Preisinger, R.

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioural traits, domestic fowl, environmental enrichment, feather pecking, poultry

2004

Fractal analysis of animal behaviour as an indicator of animal welfare

Authors: Rutherford, K.M.D.; Haskell, M.J.; Glasbey, C.; Jones, R.B.; Lawrence, A.B.

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, behavior, behaviour, chicken, fractal analysis, pig, stress

2004

The use of olfactory and other cues for social recognition by juvenile pigs

Authors: H.H. Kristensen, R.B. Jones, C.P. Schofield, R.P. White, C.M. Wathes

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: ammonia, animal welfare, olfaction, pig social behaviour, social recognition

2001

Can Environmental enrichment affect domestic chicken’s preferences for one half of an otherwise symmetrical home cage

Authors: Jones, R.B.; Carmichael, N.L.

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cage side preferences, domestic chich, environmental enrichment

1999

Possible communication by substrate vibration in a chameleon

Authors: K.E. Barnett, R.B. Cocroft, L. J. Fleishman

Publication/Journal: Copeia

Keywords: chameleon, communication, vibration

1999

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