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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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The Emergence and Behavioral Stability of Social Status in Green Anole Lizard (Anolis carolinensis) Dyads

Authors: W. J. Farrell, D. T. Nair, B. M. Miller, A. M. Zigler

Publication/Journal: Animal Behavior and Cognition

Keywords: aggression, agonistic, anolis carolinensis, dominant, green anole, social status, subordinate

2016


Minutes matter: brief hatching asynchrony adversely affects late-hatched hihi nestlings, but not life beyond the nest

Authors: Kirsty J. MacLeod, Patricia Brekke, John G. Ewen, Rose Thorogood

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: brood hierarchies, carotenoids, hatching asynchrony, maternal effects, notiomystis cincta

2016


Hand Preference for Tool-Use in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) Is Associated With Asymmetry of the Primary Motor Cortex

Authors: Kimberley A. Phillips, Claudia R. Thompson

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: handedness, hemispheric specialization, laterality

2013


Effects of body temperature on righting performance of native and invasive freshwater turtles: Consequences for competition

Authors: Nuria Polo-Cavia, Pilar López, José Martín

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: freshwater turtles, invasive species, mauremys leprosa, preferred basking temperature, righting performance, trachemys scripta

2012


Left–Right Asymmetries of Behaviour and Nervous System in Invertebrates

Authors: E. Frasnelli, G. Vallortigara, L.J. Rogers

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: brain asymmetry, brain lateralization, evolution of lateralization, invertebrates, laterality, lateralization of behaviour

2012


Space availability influence laterality in donkeys (Equus asinus)

Authors: P. Zucca, F. Cerri, A. Carluccio, L. Baciadonna

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: cerebral lateralization, donkey, equus-asinus, footedness, welfare

2011


Lateralised Swimming Behaviour in the California Sea Lion

Authors: D. L. Wells, R. M. Irwin, P. G. Hepper

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: asymmetries, handedness, laterality, pinnipeds, sea lions, swimming

2006


Behavioral Evidence For The Cutaneous Expression Of Emotion In A Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Authors: David A. Leavens, Filippo Aureli, William D. Hopkins

Publication/Journal: Behaviour

Keywords: behavioral asymmetries, behavioural asymmetries, chimpanzees (pan troglodytes), cognitive stress, emotions, scratching, self-directed behaviors, self-directed behaviour

2004


“Right-Trunkers” and “Left-Trunkers”: Side Preferences of Trunk Movements in Wild Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)

Authors: F. Martin, C. Niemitz

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *choice behavior, animal behavior, animal behaviour, animals, brain/physiology, choice behaviour, elephants, female, functional laterality/physiology, male, movement, videotape recording

2003


Lateralized behavior in two captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

Authors: Lori Marino, Jennifer Stowe

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: asymmetries, cetaceans, laterality

1997


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