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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=antarctic%20islands

Social Experience of Captive Livingstone’s Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii)

Authors: Morgan J Welch, Tessa Smith, Charlotte Hosie, Dominic Wormell, Eluned Price, Christina R Stanley

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, binomial mixture modelling, captive welfare, dominance, evidence based, Livingstone's fruit bat, network assortment, social network analysis, social roles

2020


Population survey and management strategies of free-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Authors: Adrianna Nimer, Nashelly Meneses, Zachary D. Watson, Stephen M. Shuster, Russell Benford

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: canis familiaris, introduced species, population structure, public perception, spatial distribution

2018


New insights into the huddling dynamics of emperor penguins

Authors: André Ancel, Caroline Gilbert, Nicolas Poulin, Michaël Beaulieu, Bernard Thierry

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggregation, antarctica, aptenodytes forsteri, energy saving, environment, huddling, social thermoregulation

2015


Sexual segregation in rockhopper penguins during incubation

Authors: Katrin Ludynia, Nina Dehnhard, Maud Poisbleau, Laurent Demongin, Juan F. Masello, Christian C. Voigt, Petra Quillfeldt

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: ecological niche model, energetic requirement, eudyptes chrysocome, falkland islands/islas malvinas, gps logger, maxent, sex-specific behaviour, southern rockhopper penguin, spatial segregation, stable isotope analysis

2013


Geographic variation in beak colouration in gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua

Authors: Barbosa, Andres; Palacios, M. Jose; Valera, Francisco; Martınez, Ana

Publication/Journal: Polar Biology

Keywords: antarctica, carotenoid, colour trait, contaminants, gentoo penguin, geographic variation, krill, ultraviolet

2012


Non-consumptive factors affecting foraging patterns in Antarctic penguins: a review and synthesis

Authors: D. G. Ainley, G. Ballard

Publication/Journal: Polar Biology

Keywords: adélie penguin, apex predator, emperor penguin, foraging habitat, killer whale, leopard seal, mesopredator, predation, predation fear, risk balancing

2012


The welfare of growing pigs in five different production systems in France and Spain: assessment of health

Authors: D. Temple, V. Courboulay, A. Velarde, A. Dalmau, X. Manteca

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, causal factors, growing pig, health, housing systems, welfare qualitiy and reg

2012


A Comparison of Bahamian Cat and Dog Caregivers on New Providence

Authors: William J. Fielding

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal caregivers, bahamas, education

2009


Food-web structure and ecosystem services: insights from the Serengeti

Authors: A. Dobson

Publication/Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: complexity, ecosystem service, ecotourism, food web, savanna, serengeti

2009


Sensory Ecology on the High Seas: the Odor World of the Procellariiform Seabirds

Authors: G.A. Nevitt

Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Biology

Keywords: olfaction, procellariiformes, seabirds, sub-antarctic.

2008


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