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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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Assessing zoo giraffe survivorship: Methodological aspects, historical improvement and a rapid demographic shift

Authors: Lara Scherer, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Max Hahn-Klimroth, Dennis Müller, Marco Roller, Mads Bertelsen, Jörg Jebram, Paul Dierkes, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: giraffa camelopardalis, husbandry, mortality, progress, survival

2024

Development of an image-based body condition score for giraffes Giraffa camelopardalis and a comparison of zoo-housed and free-ranging individuals

Authors: Irina Clavadetscher, Monica Bond, Louise Martin, Christian Schiffmann, Jean-Michel Hatt, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: body condition score, free-ranging giraffe, PMS, zoo

2021

Tooth wear in captive wild ruminant species differs from that of free-ranging conspecifics

Authors: Thomas M. Kaiser, Juliane Brasch, Johanna C. Castell, Ellen Schulz, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde

Keywords: browser, grazer, nutrition, tooth wear

2009

Energy supply of the okapi in captivity: intake and digestion trials

Authors: Jūrgen Hummel, Ernst Pfeffer, Camilla Nørgaard, Kristina Johanson, Marcus Clauss, Gunther Nogge

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: browse, energy supply, okapia johnstoni, rumen balance, unmolassed beet pulp

2006

Nutrition of captive lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis): a study on ingesta passage, intake, digestibility, and a diet survey

Authors: Kaori Flores-Miyamoto, Marcus Clauss, Sylvia Ortmann, Anthony W. Sainsbury

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: intermediate feeder, mean retention time, ruminant nutrition

2005

Feeding ecology of a large social antelope in the rainforest

Authors: Corinne Klaus-Hügi, Gregor Klaus, Bernhard Schmid, Barbara König

Publication/Journal: Oecologia

Keywords: feeding ecology, natural lick, rainforest, social antelope, tragelaphus eurycerus

1999

The use of dosed and herbage n-alkanes as markers for the determination of digestive strategies of captive giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Authors: Jean-Michel Hatt, Matthias Lechner-Doll, Bob Mayes

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: alkanes, browsers, digestion, ruminants

1998

Allometry and ecology of feeding behavior and digestive capacity in herbivores: A review

Authors: Peter J. Van Soest

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: digestion, feeding behavior, herbivores

1996

Small ruminants: Digestive capacity differences among four species weighing less than 20 kg

Authors: Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain, Ellen S. Dierenfeld

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: bay or black-backed duiker, maxwell's duiker, nutrition, pudu, red brocket

1996

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