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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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Refinement of welfare through development of a quantitative system for assessment of lifetime experience

Authors: S. Wolfensohn, S. Sharpe, I. Hall, S. Lawrence, S. Kitchen, M. Dennis

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, lifetime experience, macaque models of infectious disease, refinement of procedures, retrospective assessment, tb vaccine assessment

2015

Individual recognition in a wild cooperative mammal using contact calls

Authors: Lynda L. Sharpe, Amy Hill, Michael I. Cherry

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: contact call, cooperation, dominance hierarchy, dwarf mongoose, helogale parvula, individual recognition, relative rank, vocalization

2013

Estradiol effects on behavior and serum oxytocin are modified by social status and polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene in female rhesus monkeys

Authors: Vasiliki Michopoulos, Marta Checchi, Desiree Sharpe, Mark E. Wilson

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: behavior, cortisol, estradiol, monkey, oxytocin, serotonin transporter, subordination

2011

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

A comparison of rhesus monkey and gibbon responses to unfamiliar situations

Authors: Irwin S. Bernstein, Ronald J. Schusterman, Lawrence G. Sharpe

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Keywords: animal behavior, animal behaviour, gibbons, hylobates, macaco mullata, novelty, rhesus monkey

1963

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