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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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The Evolution of Zoos as Conservation Institutions: A Summary of the Transition from Menageries to Zoological Gardens and Parallel Improvement of Mammalian Welfare Management

Authors: Haley N. Beer, Trenton C. Shrader, Ty B. Schmidt, Dustin T. Yates

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: behavior, environmental enrichment, husbandry, species preservation conservation, zoo stress

2023

Effects of handling and short-term captivity: a multi-behaviour approach using red sea urchins, Mesocentrotus franciscanus

Authors: Aneesh P. H. Bose, Daniel Zayonc, Nikolaos Avrantinis, Natasha Ficzycz, Jonathan Fischer-Rush, Fiona T. Francis, Siobhan Gray, Faye Manning, Haley Robb, Coralee Schmidt, Christine Spice, Aari Umedaly, Jeff Warden, Isabelle M. Cote

Publication/Journal: PeerJ

Keywords: animal welfare, Echinoderm, invertebrate, reintroduction, relocation, stress

2019

The animal welfare implications of civet coffee tourism in Bali

Authors: G. Carder, H. Proctor, J. Schmidt-Burbach, N. D'Cruze

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, common palm civet, kopi luwak, paradoxurus hermaphroditus, welfare assessment, wildlife tourism

2016

Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), Pig-Tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) and Tiger (Panthera tigris) Populations at Tourism Venues in Thailand and Aspects of Their Welfare

Authors: J. Schmidt-Burbach, D. Ronfot, R. Srisangiam

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: behavior, domestication, multidisciplinary sciences, musth

2015

Early-life stress affects song complexity, song learning and volume of the brain nucleus RA in adult male song sparrows

Authors: Kim L. Schmidt, S. Drew Moore, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference

2013

Early-life stress affects the behavioural and neural response of female song sparrows to conspecific song

Authors: Kim L. Schmidt, Erin S. McCallum, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference

2013

Does Confirmed Pathogen Transfer between Sanctuary Workers and Great Apes Mean that Reintroduction Should not Occur?

Authors: Steve Unwin, I. A. N. Robinson, Vanessa Schmidt, Chris Colin, Lisa Ford, Tatyana Humle

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: commentary, reintroduction, risk analysis, staphylococcus aureus

2012

Changes in cortisol release and heart rate and heart rate variability during the initial training of 3-year-old sport horses

Authors: Alice Schmidt, Jörg Aurich, Erich Möstl, Jürgen Müller, Christine Aurich

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: cortisol, heart rate variability, horse, initial training

2010

Effects of environmental pollutants on the reproduction and welfare of ruminants

Authors: S. M. Rhind, N. P. Evans, M. Bellingham, R. M. Sharpe, C. Cotinot, B. Mandon-Pepin, B. Loup, K. D. Sinclair, R. G. Lea, P. Pocar, B. Fischer, E. van der Zalm, K. Hart, J. S. Schmidt, M. R. Amezaga, P. A. Fowler

Publication/Journal: animal

Keywords: endocrine disrupting compounds, pollutants, reproduction, ruminants

2010

Nutrient composition of plants consumed by black and white ruffed lemurs, Varecia variegata, in the Betampona Natural Reserve, Madagascar

Authors: Debra A. Schmidt, R. Bernard Iambana, Adam Britt, Randall E. Junge, Charles R. Welch, Ingrid J. Porton, Monty S. Kerley

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: energy, fat, fiber, mineral, protein

2010

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