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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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Behavioural Development of Three Former Pet Chimpanzees a Decade after Arrival at the MONA Sanctuary

Authors: Olga Feliu, Marti Masip, Carmen Maté, Sònia Sánchez-López, Dietmar Crailsheim, Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: activity budget, chimpanzee, early life experience, pan troglodytes, pet and entertainment, re-socialization, sanctuary, well-being

2022

The effects of allogrooming and social network position on behavioural indicators of stress in female lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus)

Authors: Kerrie Yates, Christina R Stanley, Caroline M Bettridge

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: allogrooming, indirect connections, social network analysis, stress, welfare

2022

Impact of female contraception for population management on behavior and social interactions in a captive troop of Guinea baboons (Papio papio)

Authors: Tabitha R Taberer, Jasmine Mead, Matthew Hartley, Naomi D Harvey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal welfare, baboons, contraception, social interactions

2022

Investigating the effect of social grouping on the behaviour of captive leopards

Authors: Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino, James Edward Brereton, Francesca Drago, Eleonora Confalonieri, Richard Preziosi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: activity budget, Electivity Index, felid, panthera pardus, sociality

2021

Social relationships among captive male pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus): Is forming male same‐sex pairs a feasible management strategy?

Authors: Yumi Yamanashi, Kei Nemoto, Josue Alejandro

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: affiliative, aggression, fecal glucocorticoid metabolite, management strategies, same-sex grouping, slow loris, social group

2021

A comparison of activity patterns for captive Propithecus tattersalli and Propithecus coquereli

Authors: Gregory L. Wallace, Lisa B. Paquette, Kenneth E. Glander

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: allogrooming, coquerel's sifaka, female dominance, golden-crowned sifaka, lemur, social behavior

2016

Important role of dominance in allogrooming behaviour in beef cattle

Authors: Radka Šárová, Anke Kristina Gutmann, Marek Špinka, Ilona Stěhulová, Christoph Winckler

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: allogrooming, beef cattle, dominance, reciprocity, social hierarchy, social network analysis

2016

The effect of nursing on the cow–calf bond

Authors: Julie Føske Johnsen, Anne Marie de Passille, Cecilie Marie Mejdell, Knut Egil Bøe, Ann Margaret Grøndahl, Annabelle Beaver, Jeffrey Rushen, Daniel M. Weary

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, dairy, dam rearing, growth, maternal bond

2015

Intranasal oxytocin increases social grooming and food sharing in the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus

Authors: Gerald G. Carter, Gerald S. Wilkinson

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: allogrooming, desmodus rotundus, food sharing, inhaled oxytocin, intranasal oxytocin, vampire bat

2015

Long-term familiarity creates preferred social partners in dairy cows

Authors: Anke Kristina Gutmann, Marek Špinka, Christoph Winckler

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: dairy cattle, nearest neighbour, preferential relationship, social behaviour

2015

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