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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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Battle of the enrichments: comparing the impact of nutritional and sensory enrichment on the behaviour of captive lowland tapirs Tapirus terrestris

Authors: Ellena Trelfa-Stewart, Louise Cox

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

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2023

The Impacts of Evening Events in Zoos: A Christmas Event at Knowsley Safari

Authors: Ellen Williams, Tom Fulwell, Naomi Davies Walsh, Jessica J Harley, Bridget Johnson

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal behaviour, Christmas lights, evidence-based management, ungulates, zoo animal welfare

2023

A Comparison of Zoo Animal Behavior in the Presence of Familiar and Unfamiliar People

Authors: Rosemary Anne Martin, Vicky Melfi

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal-human interactions, zoo animals

2016

Can Enrichment Make Brazilian Tapir Spend More Time on View to the Public?

Authors: Luísa Mascarenhas Ladeia Dutra, Robert John Young

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: enrichment, tapir, zoo

2014

Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators?

Authors: Mu-Yun Wang, Thomas C. Ings, Michael J. Proulx, Lars Chittka

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: attention, bombus terrestris, bumblebee, foraging, predator avoidance, predator crypsis, visual search

2013

Temporal reward variability promotes sampling of a new flower type by bumblebees

Authors: Tamar Keasar, Uzi Motro, Avi Shmida

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: artificial flower, bombus, exploitation–exploration trade-off, foraging, handling time, learning, pollination, travel time

2013

Public use of olfactory information associated with predation in two species of social bees

Authors: Eben Goodale, James C. Nieh

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: alarm pheromone, apis mellifera, bombus impatiens, bumblebee, honeybee, interspecific information exchange, predation

2012

Differences in fecal particle size between free-ranging and captive individuals of two browser species

Authors: Jürgen Hummel, Julia Fritz, Ellen Kienzle, E. Patricia Medici, Stefanie Lang, Waltraut Zimmermann, W. Jürgen Streich, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: browser, captive diet, grazer, mastication, ruminant, teeth

2008

Nutrient composition of selected whole invertebrates

Authors: Dayna Barker, Marianne P. Fitzpatrick, Ellen S. Dierenfeld

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: animal nutrition, invertebrates, minerals, proximate composition, vitamins

1998

Increased Circulating Levels of Testosterone and Corticosterone in Southern Toads, Bufo terrestris, Exposed to Coal Combustion Waste

Authors: W.A. Hopkins, M.T. Mendonça, J.D. Congdon

Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology

Keywords: bufo terrestris, coal, corticosterone, pollution, stress, testosterone, toads

1997

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