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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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Are Dolphins Kept in Impoverished Environments?

Authors: Kelly Jaakkola

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, captivity, cetacea, cognitive enrichment, dolphins, impoverishment

2023

Cetacean sleep: An unusual form of mammalian sleep

Authors: O. Lyamin, P. Manger, S. Ridgway, L. Mukhametov, J. Siegel

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: evolution, laterality, rapid eye movement sleep, slow-wave sleep, thermoregulation, unihemispheric sleep, vigilance

2008

Evaluating possible indicators of insensibility and death in cetacea

Authors: A. Butterworth, L. Sadler, T.G. Knowles, S.C. Kestin

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, cetacean, sensibility, stranding, time to death, whaling

2004

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