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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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How to measure dairy cows’ responsiveness towards humans in breeding and welfare assessment? A comparison of selected behavioural measures and existing breeding traits

Authors: Asja Ebinghaus, Silvia Ivemeyer, Vanessa Lauks, Laura Santos, Kerstin Brügemann, Sven König, Ute Knierim

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: breeding traits, dairy cattle, human-animal relationship, reliability, validity

2017

Behavioural response of dairy cows with and without calf-contact to hair of own and alien calves presented in the milking parlour

Authors: Katharina A. Zipp, Kerstin Barth, Ute Knierim

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: calf rearing, cattle, maternal discrimination, olfaction, young recognition

2016

Is rearing calves with the dam a feasible option for dairy farms?—Current and future research

Authors: Julie Føske Johnsen, Katharina A. Zipp, Tasja Kälber, Anne Marie de Passillé, Ute Knierim, Kerstin Barth, Cecilie Marie Mejdell

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: alternative calf rearing, dairy calves, suckling, welfare

2016

Effects of space allowance in the waiting area on agonistic interactions and heart rate of high and low ranking horned dairy cows

Authors: N. Irrgang, K. A. Zipp, S. Brandt, U. Knierim

Publication/Journal: Livestock Science

Keywords: agonistic behaviour, agriculture, animal welfare, automatic milking, behavior, cattle, dairy & animal science, heart rate, holding pen, milking parlour, parlor, rabbits, rate-variability, responses, stress, system, yield

2015

Assessing the welfare of dairy calves: outcome-based measures of calf health versus input-based measures of the use of risky management practices

Authors: E. Vasseur, D. Pellerin, A. M. de Passill, C. Winckler, B. J. Lensink, U. Knierim, J. Rushen

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, dairy calves, health, management, on-farm assessment, producers' attitude

2012

Social licking in dairy cattle—Effects on heart rate in performers and receivers

Authors: Simone Laister, Barbara Stockinger, Anna-Maria Regner, Karin Zenger, Ute Knierim, Christoph Winckler

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: affective states, affiliative social behavior, affiliative social behaviour, allogrooming, cardiac activity, dairy cows

2011

Reliability and feasibility of selected measures concerning resting behaviour for the on-farm welfare assessment in dairy cows

Authors: Gudrun Plesch, Nina Broerkens, Simone Laister, Christoph Winckler, Ute Knierim

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dairy cow housing, on-farm welfare assessment, reliability, resting behaviour

2010

On-farm welfare assessment in cattle- validity, reliability and feasibility issues and future perspectives with special regard to the Welfare Quality® approach

Authors: U. Knierim, C. Winckler

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cattle, certification, reliability, validity, welfare assessment

2009

Fluctuating asymmetry as an animal welfare indicator — A review of methodology and validity

Authors: U. Knierim, S. Van Dongen, B. Forkman, F. A. M. Tuyttens, M. Spinka, J. L. Campo, G. E. Weissengruber

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: animal welfare, birds, developmental instability, developmental stability, fluctuating asymmetry, humans, indicators, mammals, methods, validity, welfare assessment

2007

Voluntary animal welfare assessment of mass-produced farm animal housing equipment using a standardised procedure

Authors: U. Knierim, D. Hesse, E. von Borell, H-J. Herrmann, C. Müller, H-W. Rauch, N. Sachser, F. Zerbe

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare assessment, cattle, horses, pigs, poultry

2003

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