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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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Multi-sensor biologgers and innovative training allow data collection with high conservation and welfare value in zoos

Authors: Holly English, Luke Harvey, Rory Wilson, Richard Gunner, Mark Holton, Rosie Woodroffe, Luca Börger

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: behaviour, biologging, captivity, daily diary, dead-reckoning, enrichment, space use, welfare

2023

Minimizing the impact of biologging devices: Using computational fluid dynamics for optimizing tag design and positioning

Authors: William P. Kay, David S. Naumann, Hannah J. Bowen, Simon J. Withers, Benjamin J. Evans, Rory P. Wilson, Thomas B. Stringell, James C. Bull, Phil W. Hopkins, Luca Borger

Publication/Journal: Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Keywords: animal welfare, biologging, biotelemetry, computational fluid dynamics, drag, flow simulation, hydrodynamics, tag design

2019

Relationships between locomotor behavior, morphometric characters and thyroid hormone levels give evidence of stage-dependent mechanisms in European eel upstream migration

Authors: Hélène Imbert, Rory Arrowsmith, Sylvie Dufour, Pierre Elie

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: anguilla anguilla, condition factor, elver, locomotor-activity, migration, plasticity, t3, t4, thyroid hormones, yellow eel

2008

Effects of attached data-loggers on the activity budgets of captive Humboldt penguins

Authors: Alejandro Simeone, Rory P. Wilson, Gabriele Knauf, Werner Knauf, Jeannine Schützendübe

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: activity budget, data-loggers, device effects, humboldt penguin, spheniscus humboldti

2002

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