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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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Health and environmental effects to wildlife from radio telemetry and tracking devices—state of the science and best management practices

Authors: Albert M. Manville, B. Blake Levitt, Henry C. Lai

Publication/Journal: Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Keywords: data-loggers, fish, microchips, PIT tags, radio telemetry, radio-tracking, RFID chips, wildlife

2024

Brown Bear Cognition and Welfare

Authors: Helen R Chambers, Sean J O’Hara

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases

Keywords: animal welfare, bears, cognition, cognitive stimulation, ursids

2023

Early life adversities and lifelong health outcomes: A review of the literature on large, social, long-lived nonhuman mammals

Authors: Amanda M. Dettmer, Daniella E. Chusyd

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: aging, early life, environment, Large-bodied mammal, Long-lived mammal, social

2023

The behavioral response of the crab-eating fox to olfactory enrichment

Authors: MP Figueira, FFR Silva, A Ribeiro, IO Silva, V Boere

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: animal welfare, canids, Cerdocyon thous, environmental enrichment, olfactory stimulus

2021

Inter-individual Distance in Different Captive Packs of Iberian Wolf (Canis lupus signatus): Management Applications

Authors: Ana Isabel Soriano, Dolors Vinyoles, Carmen Maté

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: canids, dyad, proximity, social preference, two-dimensional scaling analysis

2020

Zookeepers’ Perception of Zoo Canid Welfare and its Effect on Job Satisfaction, Worldwide

Authors: Giacomo Riggio, Federica Pirrone, Elia Lunghini, Angelo Gazzano, Chiara Mariti

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, bond, canids, five freedoms, gender, job satisfaction, zookeepers

2020

Integrated Collection Assessment and Planning (ICAP) workshop: Helping zoos move toward the One Plan Approach

Authors: Kathy Traylor-Holzer, Kristin Leus, Karen Bauman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ex situ conservation, integrated conservation, regional collection planning

2019

Steel-Jawed Leghold Traps and Killing Neck Snares: Similar Injuries Command Change to Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards

Authors: Gilbert Proulx, Dwight Rodtka

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, canids, humaneness, international trapping standards, killing neck snares

2017

Training Reduces Stress in Human-Socialised Wolves to the Same Degree as in Dogs

Authors: A. D. Vasconcellos, Z. Viranyi, F. Range, C. Ades, J. K. Scheidegger, E. Mostl, K. Kotrschal

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: stress, training, welfare, wolves

2016

Cross-fostering in gray wolves (Canis lupus lupus)

Authors: Inger Scharis, Mats Amundin

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: canis lupus, cross-fostering, pup growth rate, pup survival, wolf conservation

2015

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