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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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Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins

Authors: Isabella LK Clegg, Mariana Domingues, Elin Ström, Linda Berggren

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal behaviour, bottlenose dolphins, cognitive enrichment, environmental enrichment, zoo animal welfare

2023

Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo

Authors: Ronald G Oldfield, Josie E Thal, Praanjal Das, Nick J Zarlinga, Kristen E Lukas, Jason D Wark

Publication/Journal: Journal of Ethology

Keywords: agonistic behavior, feeding competition, piranha, zoo

2022

Assessment of Feeding Behavior of the Zoo-Housed Lesser Anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla) and Nutritional Values of Natural Prey

Authors: Valentín Zárate, Jesica R Mufari, Lucía G Abalos Luna, Daniel P Villarreal, Juan M Busso

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal welfare, diet, insectivorous, live feed, mymercophagidae, zenartha

2022

Baseline Behavioral Data and Behavioral Correlates of Disturbance for the Lake Oku Clawed Frog (Xenopus longipes)

Authors: Jemma E Dias, Charlotte Ellis, Tessa E Smith, Charlotte A Hosie, Benjamin Tapley, Christopher J Michaels

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: amphibian, behavior, welfare, zoo research

2022

Day Time Activity Budgets, Height Utilization and Husbandry of Two Zoo-Housed Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroos (Dendrolagus goodfellowi buergersi)

Authors: Katherine Finch, Amy Humphreys

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: activity budget, behaviour, Dendrolagus, enclosure use, tree kangaroo, understudied

2022

Does Observer Presence Modify the Behavior and Enclosure Use of Captive Edwards’ Pheasants?

Authors: Rhiannon Amy Hoy, James Edward Brereton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: enclosure use, Lophura edwardsi, pheasantry, Spread of participation index, welfare

2022

Effects of Complex Feeding Enrichment on the Behavior of Captive Malayan Sun Bears (Helarctos malayanus)

Authors: Yasmeen Ghavamian, Darren E Minier, Karin Enstam Jaffe

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral enrichment, species-typical behavior, stereotypic behavior, stereotypy

2022

Evaluation of Sound Enrichment in the Behavior of Sapajus xanthosternos (Wied-Neuwied, 1826)(Primates: Cebidae) in Captivity

Authors: Alana Marques dos Santos, Márcio Borba da Silva, Isabela Sousa Prado, Edma Santos de Antonio, Ana Tereza Teixeira Silva Dourado, Barbara Silva Alves, Patricia Belini Nishiyama, Laize Tomazi, Ricardo Evangelista Fraga

Publication/Journal: Primate Conservation

Keywords: classical music, non-human primates, sensory enrichment

2022

Exploring the Effect of the COVID-19 Zoo Closure Period on Flamingo Behaviour and Enclosure Use at Two Institutions

Authors: Peter Kidd, Steph Ford, Paul E Rose

Publication/Journal: Birds

Keywords: activity budgets, behaviour, COVID-19, enclosure usage, flamingos, visitors, welfare

2022

Foraging enrichment affects behaviour and enclosure utilisation in captive male gelada Theropithecus gelada

Authors: Alice Hurley, Alison Cotton

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research

Keywords: enclosure use, enrichment, foraging, primate

2022

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