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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.
URL: https://detroitzoo.org/resources/?fwp_search=Sylvie%20Dufour&ignore=title%2Cabstract%2Cpublication%2Ckeywords

Playful handling of laboratory rats is more beneficial when applied before than after routine injections

Authors: Sylvie Cloutier, Kimberly L. Wahl, Jaak Panksepp, Ruth C. Newberry

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal handling, fear and anxiety, injection, pain, play behaviour, positive affective states

2015

Decreased prolactin levels reduce parental commitment, egg temperatures, and breeding success of incubating male Adélie penguins

Authors: Anne-Mathilde Thierry, Sophie Brajon, Sylvie Massemin, Yves Handrich, Olivier Chastel, Thierry Raclot

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: bromocriptine, corticosterone, egg rotation rate, egg temperature, incubation behavior, parental care, prolactin, pygoscelis adeliae, seabird

2013

Elevated corticosterone levels and severe weather conditions decrease parental investment of incubating Adélie penguins

Authors: Anne-Mathilde Thierry, Sylvie Massemin, Yves Handrich, Thierry Raclot

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: egg temperature and rotation rate, glucocorticoids, incubation behaviour, pygoscelis adeliae, seabird, weather conditions

2013

Enkephalin and dynorphin mRNA expression are associated with resilience or vulnerability to chronic social defeat stress

Authors: Patrick Bérubé, Sylvie Laforest, Seema Bhatnagar, Guy Drolet

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: accumbens, amygdala, coping, endorphin, opioids

2013

Playful handling as social enrichment for individually- and group-housed laboratory rats

Authors: Sylvie Cloutier, Chelsea Baker, Kim Wahl, Jaak Panksepp, Ruth C. Newberry

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, environmental enrichment, group-size, handling, laboratory rats, play behaviour

2013

Effect of the percentage of concentrate on intake pattern in mid-lactation goats

Authors: Amélie Serment, Sylvie Giger-Reverdin

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dairy goat, individual differences, intake pattern, rumen ph

2012

New communal roosting tradition established through experimental translocation in a Neotropical harvestman

Authors: Brian Teng, Sylvie Dao, Zoe R. Donaldson, Gregory F. Grether

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggregation, communal roost, conspecific attraction, habitat selection, harvestmen, opiliones, pheromone, scent marking, translocation

2012

The impact of moving to a novel environment on social networks, activity and wellbeing in two new world primates

Authors: V. Dufour, C. Sueur, A. Whiten, H. M. Buchanan-Smith

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: capuchin, cebus, relocation, saimiri, squirrel monkey, welfare

2011

Living together: behavior and welfare in single and mixed species groups of capuchin (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)

Authors: Rebecca Leonardi, Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith, Valérie Dufour, Charlotte MacDonald, Andrew Whiten

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: cebus, mixed species zoo exhibit, saimiri, social enrichment, welfare

2010

Physiological and behavioural responses of laboratory rats housed at different tier levels and levels of visual contact with conspecifics and humans

Authors: Sylvie Cloutier, Ruth C. Newberry

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, housing, laboratory rats, tier level, venetian blind effect

2010

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