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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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Do ship rats display predatory behaviour towards house mice?

Authors: L. J. Bridgman, J. Innes, C. Gillies, N. B. Fitzgerald, S. Miller, C. M. King

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, invasive species, mice, predatory behavior, rats

2013

Milk composition in free-ranging polar bears (Ursus maritimus) as a model for captive rearing milk formula

Authors: G.E. Hedberg, A.E. Derocher, M. Andersen, Q.R. Rogers, E.J. DePeters, B. Lönnerdal, L. Mazzaro, R.W. Chesney, B. Hollis

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: amino acids bears, fatty acids hand-rearing, lactation, maternal milk, vitamin a, vitamin d, vitamin e

2011

Is sodium fluoroacetate (1080) a humane poison? The influence of mode of action, physiological effects, and target specificity

Authors: L.E. Twigg, R.W. Parker

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: 1080, animal welfare, ethical pest control, fluoroacetate, humaneness, vertebrate pest

2010

Helarctos malayanus

Authors: C. S. Fitzgerald, P. R. Krausman

Publication/Journal: Mammalian Species

Keywords: helarctos malayanus, malayan sun bear

2002

Spontaneous Use of Magnitude Discrimination andOrdination by the Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)

Authors: R.W. Shumaker, A.M. Palkovich, B.B. Beck, G.A. Guagnano, H. Morowitz

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animals, appetitive behavior, attention, discrimination learning, female, male, motivation, pongo pygmaeus/psychology, problem solving

2001

Studies in social cognition: from primates to pigs

Authors: Held, S.; Mendl, M.; Devereux, C.; Byrne, R.W.

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, knowledge exploitation, pigs, social cognition, visual perspective-taking

2001

Home-range size as a predictor of mating systems in Microtus

Authors: S.J C. Gaulin, R.W. FitzGerald

Publication/Journal: Journal of Mammalogy

Keywords: breeding, home range, mating system, microtus, range size

1998

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